Prevalence of colonization by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 in pigs and pig farm workers in an area of Catalonia, Spain

Table 2 Characteristics of the 81 MRSA^a ST398 isolates detected in the 140 pig farmers (PF) from the 83 farms tested

spa types of isolates	Number of isolates	Number of positive farms/	% of resistance for non-beta-lactam antibiotics^b
spa types of isolates	Number of isolates	number of positive PFs	TET	ERY	CLI	CIP	GEN	TOB	SXT
t011	55	13/55	100	90.9	100	34.5	27.2	18.1	25.4
t1456	3	3/3	100	100	100	100	0	0	0
t1451	6	6/6	100	100	100	100	0	33.3	16.6
t108	5	4/5	100	100	100	60	0	20	60
t943	1	1/1	100	100	100	100	0	0	0
t1197	4	3/4	100	75	100	100	25	25	75
t034	5	4/5	100	80	100	60	0	60	40
t2346	2	2/2	100	100	100	0	0	0	0

^aAll MRSA isolates showed susceptibility to vancomycin, daptomycin, linezolid, mupirocin and rifampicin
^bAntimicrobials: TET, tetracycline; ERY, erythromycin; CLI, clindamycin; GEN, gentamicin; CIP, ciprofloxacin; SXT, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole; TOB: tobramycin

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