Isolation and characterization of Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from milk of dairy goats under low-input farm management in Greece
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2020Language
en
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The presence of Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) in raw milk is a challenge for veterinarians and public health professionals. In this study, we investigated the presence and clonality of S. aureus and MRSA in milk of individual dairy goats with subclinical mastitis reared under the low-input farming system in Greece and determined the isolates’ enterotoxin gene carriage and their ability to form biofilms. S. aureus was isolated from 162 out of the 559 milk samples examined (29 %) and one isolate per S. aureus-positive sample was further characterized. S. aureus isolates were very closely related even among farms of distant geographical regions. Nine S. aureus isolates carried a functional mecA gene and were classified as MRSA. The S. aureus protein A (spa) typing in the MRSA isolates showed that four belonged to spa type t127 (44.4 %), three to t2049 (33.3 %) and two to t7947 (22.2 %). The spa type t7947 is reported for the first time in Greece. The MRSA isolates originated from two very distantly located farms, one located in the island of Skopelos and the other in Central Macedonia. Four of the MRSA isolates carried the staphylococcal enterotoxin genes sea or sec. Most of the isolates (92 % of S. aureus and 77.8 % of the MRSA) possessed moderate or weak biofilm-formation ability. Raw milk from low-input goat herds may serve as a potential vector of antimicrobial-resistant S. aureus to raw-milk consumers. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.
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