Spreading of <i>cfr</i> -Carrying Plasmids among Staphylococci from Humans and Animals
Yuan Gao, Zheng Wang, Jiani Fu, Jiachang Cai, Tengfei Ma, Ning Xie, Run Fan, Weishuai Zhai, Andrea T. Feßler, Chengtao Sun, Congming Wu, Štefan Schwarz, Rong Zhang, Yang Wang
Abstract
-carrying plasmid pLRSA417 was first identified in a clinical methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolate, but its presence in staphylococci of human and animal origin has not been reported previously. This study showed that conjugative plasmids similar to pLRSA417 were detected mainly in Staphylococcus capitis and existed in different staphylococci in 2003 to 2021 in various clinical departments in the same hospital. pLRSA417-like plasmids were also present in staphylococci of food animal sources from different geographic regions, which suggested possible transmission among humans and animals.