Livestock-Associated Methicillin Resistant and Methicillin Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Sequence Type (CC)1 in European Farmed Animals: High Genetic Relatedness of Isolates from Italian Cattle Herds and Humans

• Patricia Alba,

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana “M. Aleandri”, Diagnostic Department, Rome, Italy

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• Fabiola Feltrin,

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana “M. Aleandri”, Diagnostic Department, Rome, Italy

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• Gessica Cordaro,

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana “M. Aleandri”, Diagnostic Department, Rome, Italy

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• María Concepción Porrero,

  Affiliation VISAVET Health Surveillance Centre, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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• Britta Kraushaar,

  Affiliation Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany

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• María Angeles Argudín,

  Affiliations Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre (VAR-CODA-CERVA), Groeselenberg, Belgium, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Department of Microbiology, Hôpital Erasme Laboratoire de Référence MRSA—Staphylocoques, Brussels, Belgium

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• Suvi Nykäsenoja,

  Affiliation Finnish Food Safety Authority Evira, Helsinki, Finland

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• Monica Monaco,

  Affiliation Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immuno-mediated Diseases, Rome, Italy

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• Marc Stegger,

  Affiliation Statens Serum Institut, Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Frank M. Aarestrup,

  Affiliation National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

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• Patrick Butaye,

  Affiliations Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre (VAR-CODA-CERVA), Groeselenberg, Belgium, Ross University, School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Biosciences, Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis, West Indies, Ghent University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and poultry diseases, Merelbeke, Belgium

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• Alessia Franco,

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana “M. Aleandri”, Diagnostic Department, Rome, Italy

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• Antonio Battisti

  * E-mail: antonio.battisti@izslt.it

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana “M. Aleandri”, Diagnostic Department, Rome, Italy

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