Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz ()

Emergence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from clonal complex 398 with no livestock association in Brazil

  • Egidio Domingos André Neto,
  • Renata Freire Alves Pereira,
  • Robert Eugene Snyder,
  • Thamiris Santana Machado,
  • Lialyz Soares Pereira André,
  • Claudete Aparecida Araújo Cardoso,
  • Fábio Aguiar-Alves

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/0074-02760170040
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 112, no. 9
pp. 647 – 649

Abstract

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CC398 is a livestock-associated Staphylococcus aureus. However, it has also been isolated from humans with no previous contact with livestock. A surveillance of methicillin-resistant S. aureus colonisation among children attending public day care centres and hospitals in Niterói and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between 2011 and 2013, resulted in the isolation of six cases of CC398 from individuals with no previous exposure to livestock. These isolates showed a high frequency of the erm(C) gene (4/6, 66.7%) with induced resistance to clindamycin, and a relatively high frequency of SEs and lukS/lukF genes. These results suggest the emergence of a non-LA-CC398 in Brazil.

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