Figure 1.
Schematic representation of the dynamics of carriage of the seven households investigated.
MRCoNS, methicillin-resistant coagulase negative staphylococci. IT, bacterial species responsible for interspecies transmission. Type, type of interspecies transmission (Direct, Indirect). Case no, number of the households investigated in this study. Individuals are named H (for human) or D (dog) followed by the case number (1 to 7) and a lower-case letter to differentiate subjects per household; if necessary, a lower script number was added. Nomenclature of individuals involved in index cases (T0) is displayed with gray background. T0 to T4, the different samplings. Index clone, S. aureus or S. pseudintermedius clones responsible for interspecies transmission in index cases (T0).
Table 1.
Number of isolates detected and molecular characterization of SA and SP analyzed in this study.
Table 2.
Different spa types present among the S. aureus clones per household during the sample period (T0–T4), positive individuals and correspondent clones.
Figure 2.
Distribution of investigated individuals (owners, dogs) related to the SA and/or SP carriage as a summary of the sampling year (T0–T4).
Figure 3.
Number of investigated individuals (owners and dogs) with different S. aureus (SA) and S. pseudintermedius (SP) carriage status over the sample year (T0–T4).
It should be noted that the sum is higher than the total number of isolates given that individuals could belong to 2 distinct carriage types depending on bacterial species.
Table 3.
Characteristics of the MRCoNS recovered in the SA/SP positive individuals per household.