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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
Highly divergent Staphylococcus aureus isolates from African non-human primates
Environmental Microbiology Reports, Volume 4, No. 1, Year 2012
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Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterium that colonizes and infects both humans and animals. As little is known about the phenotypic and molecular characteristics of S.aureus from wild animals in sub-Saharan Africa, the objective of the study was to characterize S.aureus isolates from wildlife and to analyse if they differed from those found among humans. The resistance to penicillin was low in S.aureus isolates from non-human primates (2.9%). Phylogenetic analysis based on the concatenated sequences from multilocus sequence typing revealed two highly divergent groups of isolates. One group was predominated by S.aureus that belonged to known human-related STs (ST1, ST9 and ST601) and mainly derived from great apes. A second clade comprised isolates with novel STs. These isolates were different from classical human S.aureus strains and mainly derived from monkeys. Our findings provide the basis for future studies addressing the inter- and intra-species transmission of S.aureus in Africa. © 2011 Society for Applied Microbiology and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Authors & Co-Authors
Schaumburg, Frieder
Germany, Munster
Institute of Medical Microbiology
Gabon, Lambarene
Unité de Recherche Médicale, Albert Schweitzer Hospital
Alabi, Abraham Sunday
Gabon, Lambarene
Unité de Recherche Médicale, Albert Schweitzer Hospital
Germany, Tubingen
Universitätsklinikum Und Medizinische Fakultät Tübingen
Koc̈k, Robin
Germany, Munster
Universitätsklinikum Münster
Mellmann, A. C.
Germany, Munster
Universitätsklinikum Münster
Kremsner, Peter G.
Gabon, Lambarene
Unité de Recherche Médicale, Albert Schweitzer Hospital
Germany, Tubingen
Universitätsklinikum Und Medizinische Fakultät Tübingen
Boesch, Christophe
Germany, Leipzig
Max-planck-institut Für Evolutionäre Anthropologie
Becker, Karsten
Germany, Munster
Institute of Medical Microbiology
Leendertz, Fabian Hubertus
Germany, Berlin
Robert Koch Institute
Peters, Georg
Germany, Munster
Institute of Medical Microbiology
Statistics
Citations: 60
Authors: 9
Affiliations: 6
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1111/j.1758-2229.2011.00316.x
e-ISSN:
17582229