No Detection of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Dairy Goats
1
National Veterinary Institute, 751 89 Uppsala, Sweden
2
Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden
3
Public Health Agency of Sweden, 171 82 Solna, Sweden
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Dairy 2021, 2(1), 65-70; https://doi.org/10.3390/dairy2010005
Received: 24 October 2020
/
Revised: 7 January 2021
/
Accepted: 15 January 2021
/
Published: 23 January 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Infectious Diseases in Dairy Animals)
This short communication addresses the hypothesis that the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is low in dairy goats in Sweden. Methicillin-resistant S. aureus is a widespread zoonotic bacterium of clinical importance in both animals and humans. In Sweden, MRSA is rare among both animals and humans. However, MRSA has been detected in a few goat herds in Sweden with a high within-herd occurrence of mecC-MRSA, but only a limited number of herds were investigated and most of them were not producing milk for human consumption. The prevalence of MRSA among dairy goat herds in Sweden is not known and a cross-sectional prevalence study was therefore conducted. A total of 22 bulk milk samples from the same number of herds, and pooled swabs from nose, mouth, and perineum from 113 goats, were collected during August and September 2019 for bacteriological investigation. After culturing on selective media, suspected isolates were confirmed as S. aureus using MALDI-TOF and subjected to PCR targeting the mecA and mecC genes to confirm MRSA status. No samples were found to be positive for MRSA, and there are therefore no indications of a spread of MRSA in Swedish dairy goat herds.
View Full-Text
▼
Show Figures
Figure 1
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
MDPI and ACS Style
Persson, Y.; Börjesson, S.; Myrenås, M.; Pedersen, K. No Detection of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Dairy Goats. Dairy 2021, 2, 65-70. https://doi.org/10.3390/dairy2010005
AMA Style
Persson Y, Börjesson S, Myrenås M, Pedersen K. No Detection of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Dairy Goats. Dairy. 2021; 2(1):65-70. https://doi.org/10.3390/dairy2010005
Chicago/Turabian StylePersson, Ylva, Stefan Börjesson, Mattias Myrenås, and Karl Pedersen. 2021. "No Detection of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Dairy Goats" Dairy 2, no. 1: 65-70. https://doi.org/10.3390/dairy2010005
Find Other Styles
