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Research
1. Occurrence
of multidrug resistant Staphylococcus aureus in horses in
Malaysia -Z.
Zunita, A. Bashir and A. Hafizal
Vet World. 2008; 1(6): 165-167
Abstract
Total of 22 Staphylococcus
aureus were
isolated from 50 samples from 8 stable horses. They are positive
in the catalase and coagulase tests. Upon testing the cultures
with SLIDEX test kit all formed agglutination within a few
seconds, confirming they are of S. aureus . When cultured onto MSA,
all isolates formed yellow colonies. However, none of the isolates
produced blue colonies on ORSAB indicating that there were no MRSA
among the S. aureus . There were 13 isolates which were
multiresistant. Eleven are resistant to eight out of ten
antibiotics tested. All these isolates were found to originate
from stable G. One isolate is resistant to 5 antibiotics while
another one isolate is resistant to 3 antibiotics. The rest of the
isolates are not multiresistant to the antibiotics tested.
Keywords :
Staphylococcus aureus , Horse , Malaysia , Multidrug resistant,
Occurrence, antibiotics.
