TY - JOUR ID - 1685 TI - Frequency of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the noses of Malaysian chicken farmers and their chicken JO - Iranian Journal of Veterinary Research JA - IJVR LA - en SN - 1728-1997 AU - Neela, V. AU - Ghaznavi-Rad, E. AU - Ghasemzadeh-Moghaddam, H. AU - Nor Shamsudin, M. AU - van Belkum, A. AU - Karunanidhi, A. AD - Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia AD - Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran and Molecular and Medicine Research Center, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran AD - Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus MC, Gravendijkwal 8 230 3015 CE Rotterdam, The Netherlands and BioMérieux, La Balme les Grottes, France Y1 - 2013 PY - 2013 VL - 14 IS - 3 SP - 226 EP - 231 KW - Chicken KW - Staphylococcus aureus KW - MRSA KW - Malaysia DO - 10.22099/ijvr.2013.1685 N2 - The prevalence of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin sensitiveStaphylococcus aureus (MSSA) carriage among poultry and poultry farmers in Malaysia is largely unknown.In the current investigation, chickens and chicken farmers from 30 chicken farms were screened for MRSAand S. aureus carriage. The genetic characteristics of the isolates were determined through multi locussequence typing (MLST), Staphylococcus protein A (spa) typing and virulent gene profiling. The outcome ofthe study showed lack of MRSA and extremely low S. aureus prevalence (n=7 of 503, 1.4%) among chickenflocks and the poultry farmers in Malaysia. Staphylococcus aureus isolates belonged to 4 sequence types(ST): ST97 (spa type t359), ST1179 (t359), ST 692 (t2247) and ST188 (t189). It can be concluded thatMRSA/MSSA prevalence is very low among chicken and chicken farmers, human and chicken crosstransmission of S. aureus does not seem to be a threat in Malaysia. UR - https://ijvr.shirazu.ac.ir/article_1685.html L1 - https://ijvr.shirazu.ac.ir/article_1685_bc6c4e656056f2760e198226c8db865f.pdf ER -