Table 1. Isolation sites and characteristics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in MRSA-positive pigs.
| Abattoir code | Farm code | Prefecture code | No. of positive pigs | Isolation sites |
No. of isolates | Characteristics of MRSA isolates (ST/ spa type/ SCCmec type/ antimicrobial resistance profile) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE | NA | SE+NA | SE+NA+NC | ||||||
| aa | fa | pa | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, TMP |
| fb | pa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, TMP | |
| fc | pb | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, TMP | |
| fd | pa | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, TMP | |
| fe | pa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, TMP | |
| ff | pa | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, TMP | |
| fg | pa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ST398/ t19022/ V/ ABPC, TC, TMP | |
| fh | pc | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, TMP | |
| fi | pb | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, TMP | |
| 2 | ST398/ t19022/ V/ ABPC, TC, TMP | ||||||||
| fj | pb | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, TMP | |
| fk | pa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, TMP | |
| fl | pa | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, TMP | |
| ab | fm | pa | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, TMP |
| 4 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, CP, TMP | ||||||||
| fn | pa | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, TMP | |
| fo | pa | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ST398/ t034/ IVa/ ABPC, TC | |
| fp | pc | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, TMP | |
| fq | pa | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, TMP | |
| fr | pb | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, TMP | |
| 1 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, CP, TMP | ||||||||
| fs | pb | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, TMP | |
| 3 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, CP, TMP | ||||||||
| ft | pb | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, TMP | |
| fu | pb | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, TMP | |
| ac | fv | pa | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, TMP |
| 1 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, CP, TMP | ||||||||
| fw | pa | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ST398/ t1928/ V/ ABPC, TC | |
| fx | pb | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ST398/ t034/ IVa/ABPC, TC, CP, TMP | |
| fy | pb | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | ST398/ t034/ V/ ABPC, TC, TMP | |
| Total | 48 | 25 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 64 | |||
SE: skin behind the ear, NA: nasal mucosa, NC: neck of the carcass, ST: sequence type, SCCmec: staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec, ABPC: ampicillin, TC: tetracycline, CP: chloramphenicol, TMP: trimethoprim.