Diversity of Staphylococcus aureus Isolates in European Wildlife

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 11; no. 12; p. e0168433
• Main Authors: Monecke, Stefan, Gavier-Widén, Dolores, Hotzel, Helmut, Peters, Martin, Guenther, Sebastian, Lazaris, Alexandros, Loncaric, Igor, Müller, Elke, Reissig, Annett, Ruppelt-Lorz, Antje, Shore, Anna C., Walter, Birgit, Coleman, David C., Ehricht, Ralf
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 16.12.2016; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Animal behavior; Animal species; Animals; Animals, Wild - microbiology; Austria; Bacterial Typing Techniques; Biodiversity; Biology and Life Sciences; Birds; Cattle; Cervidae; College campuses; Deer; Deer - microbiology; Deoxyribonucleic acid; Distribution; DNA; DNA microarrays; DNA, Bacterial - analysis; Domestic animals; Drug resistance; Epidemiology; Foxes - microbiology; Genes; Genetic aspects; Genomes; Germany; Hares - microbiology; Health aspects; Hedgehogs - microbiology; Hospitals; Hybridization; Livestock; Medicine and Health Sciences; Multilocus sequence typing; Multilocus Sequence Typing - methods; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis - methods; Pathobiology; Patobiologi; Penicillin; Research and Analysis Methods; Sheep; Staphylococcus aureus; Staphylococcus aureus - classification; Staphylococcus aureus - genetics; Staphylococcus aureus - isolation & purification; Staphylococcus infections; Sweden; Veterinary medicine; Wildlife; Zoonoses; Sweden; Germany

Staphylococcus aureus is a well-known colonizer and cause of infection among animals and it has been described from numerous domestic and wild animal species. The aim of the present study was to investigate the molecular epidemiology of S. aureus in a convenience sample of European wildlife and to r...