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. 2020 Dec;9(1):1534-1536.
doi: 10.1080/22221751.2020.1785335.

Swine methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carrying toxic-shock syndrome toxin gene in Hong Kong, China

Dulmini Nanayakkara Sapugahawatte  1 , Carmen Li  1 , Yun Kit Yeoh  1 , Priyanga Dharmaratne  2 , Chendi Zhu  1 , Margaret Ip  1
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Swine methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carrying toxic-shock syndrome toxin gene in Hong Kong, China

Dulmini Nanayakkara Sapugahawatte et al. Emerg Microbes Infect. 2020 Dec.

Abstract

We report a SCCmec II, ST39 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolate from pigs that harboured toxic-shock syndrome toxin gene (tsst-1). The gene was located in a rare pathogenicity island SaPI68111, which also carried enterotoxin genes that can cause fatal infections. Pigs may potentially serve as a reservoir for MRSA dissemination.

Keywords: Antimicrobial resistance; Asia; Hong Kong; MRSA; staphylococci; swine; toxic shock syndrome (tsst-1); zoonoses.

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Figure 1.
Dendrogram and PFGE profile observed among 21 pig MRSA strains. The similarities between the fingerprints were calculated using the Dice coefficient (optimization, 1%; position tolerance, 0.1% to 1%), and the fingerprints were grouped according to their similarities by use of the UPGMA algorithm. ND; Not done.
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