Staphylococcus pseudintermedius is the main bacterial cause of skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) in companion animals, particularly dogs. The emergence of methicillin-resistant S. pseudintermedius (MRSP) strains, frequently with multidrug resistance phenotypes is a public health concern. This study aimed to evaluate efflux, a resistance mechanism still poorly characterized in S. pseudintermedius, as a con...
Funding Information: This study was supported by Project BIOSAFE funded by FEDER through the Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade–COMPETE, by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT, Portugal) - Grant LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-030713, PTDC/CAL-EST/30713/2017 and by FCT through grants UI/BD/151061/2021 (CM) and 2021.05063.BD (CF) and funds to GHTM (UID/04413/2020) and the CIISA Project (UID/CVT/00...
Staphylococcus aureus is a relevant agent of skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) in animals. Fifty-five S. aureus comprising all SSTI-related isolates in companion animals, collected between 1999 and 2018 (Lab 1) or 2017 and 2018 (Lab 2), were characterized regarding susceptibility to antibiotics and heavy metals and carriage of antimicrobial resistance determinants. Clonal lineages were established by PFGE...