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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST9 from a case of bovine mastitis carries the genes cfr and erm(A) on a small plasmid
14 Feb 2012
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Sir, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can cause a wide variety of infections in animals with bovine mastitis being the predominant staphylococcal infection in dairy cattle. MRSA isolates—mainly of multilocus sequence type (ST) 398—have recently been shown to be also involved in bovine mastitis.1 Although a variety of antimicrobial resistance genes have been identified in MRSA isolates from cases...
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