Abstract
Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have recently emerged in many countries. They appear adapted for transmission amongst intensively managed animals, including pigs, cattle, poultry and horses. Those belonging to multilocus sequence type (ST) 398 have notably caused serious infections in humans exposed to colonized animals.To date, MRSA has not been reported in food-producing animals in Australia. However, ST398 MRSA was recently detected in a nasal swab from a swine veterinarian in Australia. A lack of targeted surveillance means that the presence of MRSA in Australian food-producing animals may have gone undetected. We report here the first detection of MRSA in Australian pigs, the molecular characteristics of the recovered isolates and the impact on our understanding of the global epidemiology of this priority pathogen...
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