Volume 19, Number 1—January 2013
Letter
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius in Rats
Chelsea Gardner Himsworth
, David M. Patrick, Kirbee Parsons, Alice Feng, and J. Scott Weese
, David M. Patrick, Kirbee Parsons, Alice Feng, and J. Scott WeeseTable
Sensitivity profiles for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius isolated from wild Norway rats, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada*
| Drug | Isolate no. (strain type)† |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (dt11a) | 2 (dt11a) | 3 (dt11a) | 4 (dt7ac) | |
| β-lactams | R | R | R | R |
| Clindamycin | R | R | R | R |
| Erythromycin | R | R | R | R |
| Daptomycin | S | S | S | S |
| Linezolid | S | S | S | S |
| Gentamicin | R | S | S | S |
| Tetracycline | S | S | S | R |
| Tigecycline | S | S | S | S |
| Trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole | S | S | S | S |
| Quinupristin–dalfopristin | R | S | S | S |
| Rifampin | R | S | S | S |
| Chloramphenicol | S | S | S | S |
| Nitrofurantoin | S | S | S | S |
| Ciprofloxacin | R | S | S | S |
| Levofloxacin | I | S | S | S |
| Moxifloxacin | I | S | S | S |
| Vancomycin | S | S | S | S |
*Of 5 isolates, 1 was not available for antimicrobial susceptibility testing. R, resistant; S, sensitive; I, intermediate.
†Strain types identified through direct repeat unit typing.
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