One Health (Jun 2020)

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage among guinea pigs raised as livestock in Ecuador

  • Marlon Zambrano-Mila,
  • Angel S. Rodriguez,
  • Ismar A. Rivera-Olivero,
  • Mauricio Salas-Rueda,
  • Marco Vinicio Caceres-Orellana,
  • Jacobus H. de Waard,
  • Miguel Angel Garcia-Bereguiain

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9

Abstract

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Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem in human and veterinary medicine. Here we show that 6.25% of the guinea pigs studied in Ecuador, raised as livestock, carry methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the nasopharynx and therefore may potentially play a role in the transmission of MRSA in the Andean Region of South America.