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The susceptibilities of two collections of Staphylococcus aureus isolated in 1970s and 2006 from poultry were determined to 12 antimicrobial agents. For 8 antibiotics the percentage of resistance was significantly higher in the recent isolates. Ten recent isolates were MRSA and had spa types t011 and t567 belonging to multi-locus sequence type 398. This is the first report of the “livestock-associated” MRSA from healthy poultry.
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