Amit KUMAR, Ritika YADAV, Vinod Kumar SINGH, Jayshree SINGH, Sharad Kumar YADAV

Molecular determination of methicillin resistance mecA and virulence coa genes in Staphylococcus aureus from pyogenic clinical cases of companion animals in India

Out of 100 pyogenic clinical cases of companion animals, 40 samples revealed Staphylococcus aureus confirmed by genomicamplification of 280-bp amplicons of the nuc gene. The presence of resistance and virulence determinants was confirmed for thegenomic and plasmid mec, van, and coa genes. Out of 40 isolates of S. aureus, 23 isolates revealed amplification of 533-bp mecA geneson genomic DNA. These included 4, 14, and 5 isolates of cattle, buffalo, and dogs, respectively. On amplification for the coa gene, 19isolates revealed amplicons of variable size and number on genomic DNA. The numbers of coa-positive isolates were 4, 12, and 3 ofcattle, buffalo, and dogs, respectively. Among coa-positive isolates, thirteen were mecA-positive isolates while the other six isolates weremecA-negative.

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