Characterization of tetracycline and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains in a Spanish hospital: Is livestock-contact a risk factor in infections caused by MRSA CC398?

  1. Benito, D. 1
  2. Lozano, C. 1
  3. Rezusta, A. 23
  4. Ferrer, I. 2
  5. Vasquez, M.A. 2
  6. Ceballos, S. 1
  7. Zarazaga, M. 1
  8. Revillo, M.J. 2
  9. Torres, C. 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Rioja
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    Universidad de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0553yr311

  2. 2 Hospital Miguel Servet
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    Hospital Miguel Servet

    Zaragoza, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01r13mt55

  3. 3 Universidad de Zaragoza
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    Universidad de Zaragoza

    Zaragoza, España

    ROR https://ror.org/012a91z28

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Revista:
International Journal of Medical Microbiology

ISSN: 1438-4221

Año de publicación: 2014

Volumen: 304

Número: 8

Páginas: 1226-1232

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1016/J.IJMM.2014.09.004 PMID: 25444568 SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-84940165805 WoS: WOS:000347023400033 GOOGLE SCHOLAR

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Resumen

Tetracycline-resistance (TetR) has been postulated as a marker of the livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) lineage CC398. Objectives of the study: to determine the spa-types and assigned MLST clonal complexes (CCs) among all 98 MRSA-TetR strains recovered during 2011-2012 (from different patients) in a Spanish Hospital, analyzing the possible correlation with livestock-contact of the patients. All 98 strains were assigned to 9 CCs: CC398 (60.2%), CC1 (19.4%), CC5 (12.2%), and other CCs (8.2%). The 98 patients were classified into three groups: (A) contact with livestock-animals (n=25); (B) no-contact with livestock-animals (n=42); (C) no information about animal contact (n=31). A significant higher percentage of CC398 strains was obtained in group A (76%) than in group B (50%) (p<0.05), being the percentage in group C of 61.3%. Most of MRSA-TetR-CC398 strains presented a multi-resistance phenotype, including erythromycin, clindamycin, and ciprofloxacin, and the most prevalent detected genes were tet(M) and erm(C). Three strains presented the phenotype macrolide-susceptibility/lincosamide-resistance and contained the vga(A) gene. MRSA-CC1 strains showed higher percentages of erythromycin/clindamycin resistance (95%/89%) than MRSA-CC398 strains (58%/63%), and this resistance was usually mediated by erm(C) gene. Most of MRSA-CC5 strains showed resistance to ciprofloxacin, tobramycin/kanamycin and erythromycin. None of the strains presented the genes lukF/lukS-PV, tsst-1, eta, etb or etd. All MRSA-CC398 strains lacked the genes of the immune-evasion-cluster, but MRSA-CC1 strains carried these genes (type E). In conclusion, although MRSA CC398 is detected in a significant higher proportion in patients with livestock-contact; its detection in people without this type of contact also indicates its capacity for human-to-human transmission.