Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage among guinea pigs raised as livestock in Ecuador

Marlon Zambrano-Mila; Angel S Rodriguez; Ismar A Rivera-Olivero; Mauricio Salas-Rueda; Marco Vinicio Caceres-Orellana; Jacobus H de Waard; Miguel Angel Garcia-Bereguiain

doi:10.1016/j.onehlt.2019.100118

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage among guinea pigs raised as livestock in Ecuador

One Health. 2019 Nov 29:9:100118. doi: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2019.100118. eCollection 2020 Jun.

Authors

Marlon Zambrano-Mila^{1

2}, Angel S Rodriguez^{1

2}, Ismar A Rivera-Olivero¹, Mauricio Salas-Rueda³, Marco Vinicio Caceres-Orellana⁴, Jacobus H de Waard^{1

5}, Miguel Angel Garcia-Bereguiain¹

Affiliations

¹ One Health Research Group, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.
² Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas e Ingeniería, Universidad Yachay Tech, Urcuquí, Ecuador.
³ Globalgen, Carrera de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia. Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Cuenca, Ecuador.
⁴ Clínica Veterinaria Cáceres. Paute. Ecuador.
⁵ Departamento de Tuberculosis, Instituto de Biomedicina Dr. Jacinto Convit, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela.

Abstract

Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem in human and veterinary medicine. Here we show that 6.25% of the guinea pigs studied in Ecuador, raised as livestock, carry methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the nasopharynx and therefore may potentially play a role in the transmission of MRSA in the Andean Region of South America.