Open AccessClonal diversity, virulence patterns and antimicrobial and biocide susceptibility among human, animal and environmental MRSA in Portugal
Author(s) -
Natacha Couto,
Adriana Belas,
Kristina Kadlec,
Štefan Schwarz,
Constança Pomba
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy/journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124
H-Index - 194
eISSN - 1460-2091
pISSN - 0305-7453
DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkv141
Subject(s) - microbiology and biotechnology , biology , virulence , staphylococcus aureus , sccmec , multilocus sequence typing , antibiotic resistance , methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus , pulsed field gel electrophoresis , staphylococcal infections , drug resistance , antimicrobial , typing , gene , virology , genetics , bacteria , antibiotics , genotype
The objective of this study was to identify the Staphylococcus aureus clonal types currently circulating in animals, humans in contact with animals and the environment in Portugal based on genetic relatedness, virulence potential and antimicrobial/biocide susceptibility.