• J. Antimicrob. Chemother. · Aug 2014

    Detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carrying the mecC gene in wild small mammals in Spain.

    • Paula Gómez, David González-Barrio, Daniel Benito, Jesús T García, Javier Viñuela, Myriam Zarazaga, Francisco Ruiz-Fons, and Carmen Torres.
    • Area of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of La Rioja, Logroño, Spain.
    • J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 2014 Aug 1; 69 (8): 2061-4.

    ObjectivesTo determine the rate of Staphylococcus aureus faecal carriage in 101 wild small mammals in Spain and to characterize the isolates obtained.MethodsFaecal samples were seeded on mannitol salt agar and ORSAB plates. The presence of the resistance genes mecA, mecC and blaZ and the new blaZ allotype associated with staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) XI (blaZ-SCCmecXI) was studied by PCR. S. aureus isolates were characterized by spa typing, agr typing and multilocus sequence typing. The presence of immune evasion cluster (IEC) genes and virulence genes was analysed by PCR.ResultsS. aureus was detected in 13/101 studied faecal samples and one isolate per positive sample was further studied. Two S. aureus isolates were methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) (recovered from wood mice, Apodemus sylvaticus) and 11 were methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA). Both MRSA isolates harboured the mecC gene and the novel blaZ-SCCmecXI, were typed as spa-t1535/agrIII/ST1945(CC130)/SCCmecXI (where ST stands for sequence type and CC stands for clonal complex), carried the exfoliative toxin etd2 gene and were IEC type E. Eight different spa types were identified among the 11 MSSA isolates (five new) and six different sequence types were identified (two new). All MSSA strains were susceptible to the antibiotics tested except one blaZ-positive penicillin-resistant isolate (spa-t120/agrII/ST15). MSSA isolates were ascribed to the CCs (number of strains) CC5 (1), CC1956 (4) and singleton (6). Nine of 11 MSSA isolates carried the cna virulence gene. Only one MSSA isolate carried IEC genes (type C).ConclusionsThis is the first report of MRSA carrying mecC in faecal samples of wild small mammals in Spain. These resistant isolates carried genes of the IEC system, unusual in S. aureus from animals. Wild small mammals could be a reservoir of the mecC gene with important implications for public health.© The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.

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