Transmission of MDR MRSA between primates, their environment and personnel at a United States primate centre.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

MDR MRSA isolates cultured from primates, their facility and primate personnel from the Washington National Primate Research Center were characterized to determine whether they were epidemiologically related to each other and if they represented common local human-associated MRSA strains.

Methods

Human and primate nasal and composite environmental samples were collected, enriched and selected on medium supplemented with oxacillin and polymyxin B. Isolates were biochemically verified as Staphylococcus aureus and screened for the mecA gene. Selected isolates were characterized using SCCmec typing, MLST and WGS.

Results

Nasal cultures were performed on 596 primates and 105 (17.6%) were MRSA positive. Two of 79 (2.5%) personnel and two of 56 (3.6%) composite pr

SUBMITTER: Soge OO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5031921 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature