Can methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus prevalence from dairy cows in India act as potential risk for community-associated infections?: A review.

Sathish Gopal,Kurunchi C Divya

doi:10.14202/vetworld.2017.311-318

Sathish Gopal, Kurunchi C Divya

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https://doi.org/10.14202/vetworld.2017.311-318

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Abstract

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is classified as hospital associated (HA), community associated (CA), livestock associated (LA) and is a global concern. Developing countries, like India, are densely populated country challenging for public hygiene practices. HA-MRSA is comfortably recorded in India, and CA-MRSA is also reported as increasing one. CA-MRSA is serious disease which affects the community as endemic. MRSA is one among major mastitis-causing organisms in India as LA-MRSA. There were reports for transmission of MRSA as community between milk handlers and cow in global perspective. In India reports of MRSA in short among milk handlers and also transmission between animal and human. Hence, proper monitoring of MRSA transmission in India should be elucidated in account among milk handlers and dairy cows to avoid emerging CA-MRSA as outbreak.

Highlights

Staphylococcus aureus is the well-known epidemic nosocomial pathogen in humans [1,2] and the primary causative agent of mastitis in cattle [3,4]
Considering that the milking hygiene score correlated with the somatic cell count, which is increased in the presence of mastitis, it is supposable that the improvement of hygiene practices might reduce the risk for methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) to spread on dairy farms, for example via milkers hands and milking clusters, which represent a common route of transmission for mastitis pathogens, especially S. aureus between cows
The transmission of MRSA infections may be limited by universal infection-control measures, patient education, screening and decolonization of asymptomatic MRSA carriers in both health-care and community settings

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Introduction

Staphylococcus aureus is the well-known epidemic nosocomial pathogen in humans [1,2] and the primary causative agent of mastitis in cattle [3,4]. HA-MRSA (HA-MRSA) characteristically colonizes or infects hospitalized individuals with predisposing risk factors, usually retain SCCmec type I, II or III, and is multi-drug resistant (MDR) [16]. A vancomycin-resistant MRSA is reported in hospital and CA infections of Brazil.

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