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Volume 20, Number 5—May 2014
Letter

Staphylococcus aureus Carrying mecC Gene in Animals and Urban Wastewater, Spain

M. Concepción Porrero, Aránzazu Valverde, Pedro Fernández-Llario1, Alberto Díez-Guerrier, Ana Mateos, Santiago Lavín, Rafael Cantón, José-Francisco Fernández-Garayzabal, and Lucas DomínguezComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain (M.C. Porrero, A. Valverde, A. Díez-Guerrier, A. Mateos, J.-F. Fernández-Garayzabal, L. Domínguez); Universidad de Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain (P. Fernández-Llario); Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain (S. Lavín); Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal and Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), Madrid (R. Cantón)

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Table

Testing of Staphylococcus aureus isolates for presence of methicillin resistance mechanism gene mecC, Spain*

Isolate source Year(s) of isolation No. mecC-positive isolates spa type MLST CC Antimicrobial resistance profile
Livestock, n = 39
Cattle, n = 5 2011 0
Fattening pigs, n = 34
 2009, 2011
 0
Wild animals, n = 254
Eurasian griffon vulture, n = 2 2011 0
Fallow deer, n = 2 2012 2 t11212 ST425 CC425 PEN, FOX
t11212 ST425 CC425 PEN
Iberian ibex, n = 39 2009–2010 0
Mouflon, n = 2 2009 0
Red deer, n = 61 2009–2011 0
Wild boar, n = 148
 2009–2011
 1
 t11212
 ST425
 CC425
 PEN, FOX
Urban wastewater, n = 68 2011 1 t843 ST2676 CC130 PEN, ERY

*MLST, multilocus sequence typing; ST, sequence type; CC, clonal complex; PEN, benzylpenicillin; FOX, cefoxitin; ERY, erythromycin.

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1Current affiliation: Innovación en Gestión y Conservación de Ungulados S.L., Cáceres, Spain.

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