Prevalence and risk factors for carriage of multi-drug resistant Staphylococci in healthy cats and dogs

Gandolfi-Decristophoris, Paola; Schüpbach-Regula, Gertraud; Petrini, Orlando; Zinsstag, Jakob; Schelling, Esther (2013). Prevalence and risk factors for carriage of multi-drug resistant Staphylococci in healthy cats and dogs. Journal of veterinary science, 14(4), pp. 449-456. The Korean Society of Veterinary Science 10.4142/jvs.2013.14.4.449

Preview

Text JVS014-04-11.pdf - Published Version Available under License Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial (CC-BY-NC). Download (276kB) | Preview

We investigated the distribution of commensal staphylococcal species and determined the prevalence of multi-drug resistance in healthy cats and dogs. Risk factors associated with the carriage of multi-drug resistant strains were explored. Isolates from 256 dogs and 277 cats were identified at the species level using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionisation-time of flight mass spectrometry. The diversity of coagulase-negative Staphylococci (CNS) was high, with 22 species in dogs and 24 in cats. Multi-drug resistance was frequent (17%) and not always associated with the presence of the mecA gene. A stay in a veterinary clinic in the last year was associated with an increased risk of colonisation by multi-drug resistant Staphylococci (OR = 2.4, 95% CI: 1.1˜5.2, p value LRT = 0.04). When identifying efficient control strategies against antibiotic resistance, the presence of mechanisms other than methicillin resistance and the possible role of CNS in the spread of resistance determinants should be considered.

Interest & Impact

Downloads

155 since deposited on 05 Feb 2014
12 in the past 12 months

Citations

5 Citations in Web of Science ®
6 Citations in Scopus

Search

in Google Scholar™

Services

Actions (login required)

Edit item

Actions (login required)

Edit item