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Chiara Piraino

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Antibiotic Resistance Profiling, Analysis of Virulence Aspects and Molecular Genotyping of Staphylococcus aureus Isolated in Sicily, Italy

2018

Abstract Staphylococcus aureus is the major cause of foodborne diseases worldwide. In this retrospective study, 84 S. aureus strains were characterized. The collection comprises 78 strains isolated during 1998 and 2014 from dairy products and tissue samples from livestock bred for dairy production in Sicily. One isolate was obtained from a pet (dog), one from an exotic animal (a circus elephant), and four human isolates were obtained during a severe food poisoning outbreak that occurred in Sicily in 2015. All the strains were characterized by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), for antibiotic resistance and presence of toxin genes. PFGE results showed 10 different pulsotypes, with thre…

0301 basic medicineStaphylococcus aureusLivestockantibiotic resistanceGenotypeMLST; MRSA; PFGE; Staphylococcus aureus; antibiotic resistance; toxin genesTetracycline030106 microbiologyVirulenceMRSABiologymedicine.disease_causeSettore BIO/19 - Microbiologia GeneraleApplied Microbiology and BiotechnologyMicrobiologyMicrobiologyFoodborne DiseasesEnterotoxins03 medical and health sciencesAntibiotic resistanceDrug Resistance BacterialPulsed-field gel electrophoresismedicineAnimalsHumansSicilyRetrospective StudiesVirulenceOutbreakOriginal ArticlesPFGEStaphylococcal InfectionsAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial Typing TechniquesElectrophoresis Gel Pulsed-FieldPenicillin030104 developmental biologyStaphylococcus aureustoxin genesStaphylococcus aureuFood MicrobiologyMultilocus sequence typingAnimal Science and ZoologyMultilocus Sequence TypingMLSTFood Sciencemedicine.drug
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