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Epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus in pigs and farmers in the largest farm in Dakar, Senegal.
Foodborne pathogens and disease - 1 Oct 2012
Fall Cheikh, Seck Abdoulaye, Richard Vincent, Ndour Moustapha, Sembene Mbacke, Laurent Frederic, Breurec Sebastien
Abstract excerpt
Between December 2009 and November 2011, we collected 57 (12.3%) Staphylococcus aureus isolates from 464 pigs and 16 (30.8%) isolates from 52 farmers in the largest farm in Dakar. Fifty-one isolates (70%) belonged to four major multilocus sequence typing clonal complexes (CCs): CC152 (26.0%), CC15 (19.2%), CC5 (13.7%), and CC97 (10.9%). The CC variability among the pigs was similar to that observed among the...
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