<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><italic>Staphylococcus aureus</italic> is a common human and livestock opportunistic pathogen, and there is evidence of animal to human transmission. This paper aimed to recognize properties of the isolates from collections of human and livestock <italic>S. aureus</italic> strains and to estimate compatibility of results based on phenotypic tests, microarrays and the <italic>spa</italic> typing methods. The second goal was to study differences between human and animal isolates in terms of specificity of their hosts and the strain transmission among various hosts. Most strains showed multi-susceptible profiles and produced enzymes on a high level, and they were phenotypically and genetically similar. However, in contrast to the Polish bovine mastitis strains, the Slovakian strains were multi-resistant. In this research, the strains showed significant differences in terms of their phenotypic manifestations and the presence of hemolysins genes; however, other enzyme-encoding genes correlated to a higher extent with the microarrays results. Interestingly, there was a lack of enterotoxin genes in human Poultry-like protein A+ strains in comparison to other human strains. Our study showed that differences between virulence profiles of the human and animal strains correlated with their origin rather than their hosts, and any trait allowed clearly distinguishing between them based on the microarray results.</p></abstract>

Staphylococcus aureus is a common human and livestock opportunistic pathogen, and there is evidence of animal to human transmission. This paper aimed to recognize properties of the isolates from collections of human and livestock S. aureus strains and to estimate compatibility of results based on phenotypic tests, microarrays and the spa typing methods. The second goal was to study differences between human and animal isolates in terms of specificity of their hosts and the strain transmission among various hosts. Most strains showed multi-susceptible profiles and produced enzymes on a high level, and they were phenotypically and genetically similar. However, in contrast to the Polish bovine mastitis strains, the Slovakian strains were multi-resistant. In this research, the strains showed significant differences in terms of their phenotypic manifestations and the presence of hemolysins genes; however, other enzyme-encoding genes correlated to a higher extent with the microarrays results. Interestingly, there was a lack of enterotoxin genes in human Poultry-like protein A+ strains in comparison to other human strains. Our study showed that differences between virulence profiles of the human and animal strains correlated with their origin rather than their hosts, and any trait allowed clearly distinguishing between them based on the microarray results.

New Insight into Genotypic and Phenotypic Relatedness of <italic>Staphylococcus aureus</italic> Strains from Human Infections or Animal Reservoirs

Polish Journal of Microbiology

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New Insight into Genotypic and Phenotypic Relatedness of  Strains from Human Infections or Animal Reservoirs

Staphylococcus aureus is a common human and livestock opportunistic pathogen, and there is evidence of animal to human transmission. This paper aimed to...

New Insight into Genotypic and Phenotypic Relatedness of Staphylococcus aureus Strains from Human Infections or Animal Reservoirs

Article Category: original-paper

Pubblicato online: 28 mar 2019

Pagine: 93 - 104

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/pjm-2019-011

Parole chiave
genetic profile, infection, microarrays, phenotype,

© 2019 KLAUDIA LISOWSKA-ŁYSIAK et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

New Insight into Genotypic and Phenotypic Relatedness of Staphylococcus aureus Strains from Human Infections or Animal Reservoirs

Article Category: original-paper

Pubblicato online: 28 mar 2019

Pagine: 93 - 104

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/pjm-2019-011

Parole chiavegenetic profile, infection, microarrays, phenotype,

© 2019 KLAUDIA LISOWSKA-ŁYSIAK et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Parole chiave
genetic profile, infection, microarrays, phenotype,