dc.creator | Pexara A., Solomakos N., Govaris A. | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-31T09:50:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-01-31T09:50:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
dc.identifier | 10.1111/lam.13342 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 02668254 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11615/78199 | |
dc.description.abstract | The aims of the present study were to examine the occurrence of Staphylococcus spp. in the tonsils of slaughtered pigs in a regional slaughterhouse in Greece, the antibiotic resistance of the Staphylococcus spp. isolates, and the enteroxigenicity of the S. aureus isolates. Staphylococcus spp. were isolated in 70 (48·61%) out of the total 144 tonsil samples. The predominant species was S. aureus in coagulase-positive staphylococci (CoPS), while the predominant species were Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus saprophyticus in the coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS). Staphylococcus spp. isolates presented high antibiotic resistance frequencies to tetracycline (97·1%) or clindamycin (80·0%) and low antibiotic resistance frequencies to fusidic acid (14·3%). No methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains were identified, and all Staphylococcus spp. isolates were susceptible to vancomycin. Among the 26 S. aureus isolates, 21 (80·76%) possessed staphylococcal enterotoxin genes with seven different enterotoxin gene profiles. The predominant enterotoxin profile was seg, sei and sej with seven S. aureus isolates. The occurrence of multidrug resistant Staphylococcus spp. in pig tonsils indicate public health risk to pork consumers and handlers in developing antimicrobial resistance. © 2020 Society for Applied Microbiology | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.source | Letters in Applied Microbiology | en |
dc.source.uri | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85087913499&doi=10.1111%2flam.13342&partnerID=40&md5=75370c7f3c3c6d0fc265ee3aec717989 | |
dc.subject | cefoxitin | en |
dc.subject | chloramphenicol | en |
dc.subject | ciprofloxacin | en |
dc.subject | clindamycin | en |
dc.subject | cotrimoxazole | en |
dc.subject | enterotoxin | en |
dc.subject | erythromycin | en |
dc.subject | fusidic acid | en |
dc.subject | gentamicin | en |
dc.subject | oxacillin | en |
dc.subject | penicillin derivative | en |
dc.subject | Staphylococcus enterotoxin | en |
dc.subject | tetracycline | en |
dc.subject | toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 | en |
dc.subject | vancomycin | en |
dc.subject | antiinfective agent | en |
dc.subject | clindamycin | en |
dc.subject | antibiotic resistance | en |
dc.subject | bacterium | en |
dc.subject | isolated population | en |
dc.subject | pig | en |
dc.subject | animal experiment | en |
dc.subject | animal tissue | en |
dc.subject | antibiotic resistance | en |
dc.subject | Article | en |
dc.subject | bacterial colonization | en |
dc.subject | bacterium isolate | en |
dc.subject | bacterium isolation | en |
dc.subject | carcass | en |
dc.subject | genetic profile | en |
dc.subject | Greece | en |
dc.subject | nonhuman | en |
dc.subject | pig | en |
dc.subject | prevalence | en |
dc.subject | slaughterhouse | en |
dc.subject | Staphylococcus | en |
dc.subject | Staphylococcus epidermidis | en |
dc.subject | Staphylococcus saprophyticus | en |
dc.subject | tonsil | en |
dc.subject | animal | en |
dc.subject | classification | en |
dc.subject | drug effect | en |
dc.subject | genetics | en |
dc.subject | isolation and purification | en |
dc.subject | metabolism | en |
dc.subject | methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus | en |
dc.subject | microbial sensitivity test | en |
dc.subject | microbiology | en |
dc.subject | palatine tonsil | en |
dc.subject | pig | en |
dc.subject | slaughterhouse | en |
dc.subject | Staphylococcus | en |
dc.subject | Staphylococcus infection | en |
dc.subject | swine disease | en |
dc.subject | veterinary medicine | en |
dc.subject | Greece | en |
dc.subject | Staphylococcus | en |
dc.subject | Staphylococcus aureus | en |
dc.subject | Staphylococcus epidermidis | en |
dc.subject | Staphylococcus saprophyticus | en |
dc.subject | Suidae | en |
dc.subject | Abattoirs | en |
dc.subject | Animals | en |
dc.subject | Anti-Bacterial Agents | en |
dc.subject | Clindamycin | en |
dc.subject | Drug Resistance, Bacterial | en |
dc.subject | Enterotoxins | en |
dc.subject | Greece | en |
dc.subject | Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus | en |
dc.subject | Microbial Sensitivity Tests | en |
dc.subject | Palatine Tonsil | en |
dc.subject | Staphylococcal Infections | en |
dc.subject | Staphylococcus | en |
dc.subject | Swine | en |
dc.subject | Swine Diseases | en |
dc.subject | Blackwell Publishing Ltd | en |
dc.title | Occurrence, antibiotic resistance and enteroxigenicity of Staphylococcus spp. in tonsils of slaughtered pigs in Greece | en |
dc.type | journalArticle | en |