High Prevalence of Livestock-Associated Methicillin-Resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> in Hungarian Pig Farms and Genomic Evidence for the Spillover of the Pathogen to Humans

<div>Relatedness and genetic traits of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> (MRSA) clonal complex (CC) 398 strains isolated from farm environments, swine professionals, and human clinical specimens. The unrooted unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean (UPGMA) tree was generated using the core genome multilocus sequence typing (cgMLST) distance matrix of 70 MRSA isolates. The identified genetic clusters (C1–C5) are highlighted. The tree scale bar indicates a 10 allelic difference. The branch showing an allelic difference &gt;200 was trimmed automatically by the BioNumerics software. Please note the strong association between the farm genetics and the clustering of isolates in C2 and C3.</div>

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

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Figure 2: High Prevalence of Livestock-Associated Methicillin-Resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> in Hungarian Pig Farms and Genomic Evidence for the Spillover of the Pathogen to Humans 

Figure 2 | High Prevalence of Livestock-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Hungarian Pig Farms and Genomic Evidence for the Spillover of the Pathogen to Humans 