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Meticillin Resistant Staphylococci (MRS) Updates
A. Loeffler
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EPIDEMIOLOGY
Meticillin-resistant staphylococci (MRS) present major challenges in veterinary and human medicine as they are often resistant to many or most clinically relevant antimicrobial agents and also due to their zoonotic potential (1, 2). In addition, MRS can remain viable on environmental surfaces for over a year, making control of spread and infection difficult. MRSA as a human hospital associated pathogen has been investigated for the past 50 years and when identified from pets represents a “spill-over” from humans to pets with humans and human healthcare systems as the main reservoir for this opportunistic pathogen (1). In contrast, MRSP emerged in Europe just over ten years ago and has since spread rapidly as a veterinary nosocomial pathogen. Molecular analytic tools can nowadays provide valuable insights into the transmission of MRS within a veterinary clinic and understanding the population structure (3) and the acquisition of new resistance genes of MRS may help to limit epidemic spread of successful clones (4). ...
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