Zambrano-Mila M, Rodriguez AS, Rivera-Olivero IA, Salas-Rueda M, Caceres-Orellana MV, de Waard JH, Garcia-Bereguiain MA. Methicillin resistant
Staphylococcus aureus carriage among guinea pigs raised as livestock in Ecuador.
One Health 2019;
9:100118. [PMID:
31853475 PMCID:
PMC6911982 DOI:
10.1016/j.onehlt.2019.100118]
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Abstract
Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem in human and veterinary medicine. Here we show that 6.25% of the guinea pigs studied in Ecuador, raised as livestock, carry methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the nasopharynx and therefore may potentially play a role in the transmission of MRSA in the Andean Region of South America.
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