Identification of potential sources of Staphylococcus aureus in herds with mastitis problems

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 180-191

  Capurro, A ^a,b   Aspan A ^a   Ericsson Unnerstad, H ^a   Persson Waller, K ^a,b   Artursson, K ^a  

^a NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bovine mastitis; Extra mammary sites; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BOVINE MASTITIS; CAT; CATTLE; DOG; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; PREGNANCY; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; CATS; CATTLE; DOGS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MILK; PREGNANCY; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 77749324988     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2009-2471     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Andersson K. Peat litter to Swedish dairy cows [In Swedish] 2007, Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala.
2. Bannerman T.L., Hancock G.A., Tenover F.C., Miller J.M. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis as a replacement for bacteriophage typing of Staphylococcus aureus. J. Clin. Microbiol. 1995, 33:551-555.
3. Brouillette E., Grondin G., Shkreta L., Lacasse P., Talbot B.G. In vivo and in vitro demonstration that Staphylococcus aureus is an intracellular pathogen in the presence or absence of fibronectin-binding proteins. Microb. Pathog. 2003, 35:159-168.
4. Davidson I. The epidemiology of staphylococcal mastitis. Vet. Rec. 1961, 73:1015-1018.
5. Devriese L.A. Baird-Parker medium supplemented with acriflavine, polymyxins and sulphonamide for the selective isolation of Staphylococcus aureus from heavily contaminated materials. J. Appl. Bacteriol. 1981, 50:351-357.
6. Dingwell R.T., Leslie K.E., Sabour P., Lepp D., Pacan J. Influence of the genotype of Staphylococcus aureus, determined by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, on dry-period elimination of subclinical mastitis in Canadian dairy herds. Can. J. Vet. Res. 2006, 70:115-120.
7. Ericsson Unnerstad H., Lindberg A., Persson Waller K., Ekman T., Artursson K., Nilsson Öst M., Bengtsson B. Microbial aetiology of acute clinical mastitis and agent-specific risk factors. Vet. Microbiol. 2009, 137:90-97.
8. Ferguson J.D., Azzaro G., Gambina M., Licitra G. Prevalence of mastitis pathogens in Ragusa, Sicily, from 2000 to 2006. J. Dairy Sci. 2007, 90:5798-5813.
9. Fournier C., Kuhnert P., Frey J., Miserez R., Kirchhofer M., Kaufmann T., Steiner A., Graber H.U. Bovine Staphylococcus aureus: Association of virulence genes, genotypes and clinical outcome. Res. Vet. Sci. 2008, 85:439-448.
10. Fox L.K., Gaskins C.T., Hancock D.D., Newkirk D., Hutton C.T. Comparison of media to isolate Staphylococcus aureus from teat skin and milking unit liners. Cornell Vet. 1992, 82:225-231.
11. Fox L.K., Gershman M., Hancock D.D., Hutton C.T. Fomites and reservoirs of Staphylococcus aureus causing intramammary infections as determined by phage typing: The effect of milking time hygiene practices. Cornell Vet. 1991, 81:183-193.
12. Fulwider W.K., Grandin T., Garrick D.J., Engle T.E., Lamm W.D., Dalsted N.L., Rollin B.E. Influence of free-stall base on tarsal joint lesions and hygiene in dairy cows. J. Dairy Sci. 2007, 90:3559-3566.
13. Gianneechini R., Concha C., Rivero R., Delucci I., Moreno Lopez J. Occurrence of clinical and sub-clinical mastitis in dairy herds in the West Littoral Region in Uruguay. Acta Vet. Scand. 2002, 43:221-230.
14. Gillespie B.E., Owens W.E., Nickerson S.C., Oliver S.P. Deoxyribonucleic acid fingerprinting of Staphylococcus aureus from heifer mammary secretions and from horn flies. J. Dairy Sci. 1999, 82:1581-1585.
15. Haveri M., Hovinen M., Roslof A., Pyörälä S. Molecular types and genetic profiles of Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from bovine intramammary infections and extramammary sites. J. Clin. Microbiol. 2008, 46:3728-3735.
16. Hogan J., González R.N., Harmon R., Nickerson S.C., Oliver S.J., Pankey J., Smith K. Staphylococci. Laboratory Handbook on Bovine Mastitis 1999, National Mastitis Council, Madison, WI, Pages 65-77.
17. Joo Y.S., Fox L.K., Davis W.C., Bohach G.A., Park Y.H. Staphylococcus aureus associated with mammary glands of cows: Genotyping to distinguish different strains among herds. Vet. Microbiol. 2001, 80:131-138.
18. Jorgensen H.J., Mork T., Caugant D.A., Kearns A., Rorvik L.M. Genetic variation among Staphylococcus aureus strains from Norwegian bulk milk. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2005, 71:8352-8361.
19. Larsen H.D., Sloth K.H., Elsberg C., Enevoldsen C., Pedersen L.H., Eriksen N.H., Aarestrup F.M., Jensen N.E. The dynamics of Staphylococcus aureus intramammary infection in nine Danish dairy herds. Vet. Microbiol. 2000, 71:89-101.
20. Matos J.S., White D.G., Harmon R.J., Langlois B.E. Isolation of Staphylococcus aureus from sites other than the lactating mammary gland. J. Dairy Sci. 1991, 74:1544-1549.
21. Middleton J.R., Fox L.K., Gay J.M., Tyler J.W., Besser T.E. Use of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for detecting differences in Staphylococcus aureus strain populations between dairy herds with different cattle importation practices. Epidemiol. Infect. 2002, 129:387-395.
22. Olde Riekerink R.G., Barkema H.W., Kelton D.F., Scholl D.T. Incidence rate of clinical mastitis on Canadian dairy farms. J. Dairy Sci. 2008, 91:1366-1377.
23. Piccinini R., Cesaris L., Dapra V., Borromeo V., Picozzi C., Secchi C., Zecconi A. The role of teat skin contamination in the epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus intramammary infections. J. Dairy Res. 2009, 76:36-41.
24. Pitkala A., Haveri M., Pyorala S., Myllys V., Honkanen-Buzalski T. Bovine mastitis in Finland 2001-Prevalence, distribution of bacteria, and antimicrobial resistance. J. Dairy Sci. 2004, 87:2433-2441.
25. Quinn P.J., Carter M.E., Markey B., Carter G.R. Staphylococcus species. Mosby's Clinical Veterinary Microbiology 1994, Wolfe, London, UK, Pages 118-126.
26. Roberson J.R., Fox L.K., Hancock D.D., Besser T.E. Evaluation of methods for differentiation of coagulase-positive staphylococci. J. Clin. Microbiol. 1992, 30:3217-3219.
27. Roberson J.R., Fox L.K., Hancock D.D., Gay C.C., Besser T.E. Coagulase-positive Staphylococcus intramammary infections in primiparous dairy cows. J. Dairy Sci. 1994, 77:958-969.
28. Roberson J.R., Fox L.K., Hancock D.D., Gay J.M., Besser T.E. Ecology of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from various sites on dairy farms. J. Dairy Sci. 1994, 77:3354-3364.
29. Roberson J.R., Fox L.K., Hancock D.D., Gay J.M., Besser T.E. Sources of intramammary infections from Staphylococcus aureus in dairy heifers at first parturition. J. Dairy Sci. 1998, 81:687-693.
30. Sommerhauser J., Kloppert B., Wolter W., Zschock M., Sobiraj A., Failing K. The epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus infections from subclinical mastitis in dairy cows during a control programme. Vet. Microbiol. 2003, 96:91-102.
31. Spencer G.R., Lasmanis J. Reservors of infection of Micrococcus pyogenes in bovine mastitis. Am. J. Vet. Res. 1952, 13:500-503.
32. Tenover F.C., Arbeit R.D., Goering R.V., Mickelsen P.A., Murray B.E., Persing D.H., Swaminathan B. Interpreting chromosomal DNA restriction patterns produced by pulse-field gel electrophoresis: Criteria for bacterial strain typing. J. Clin. Microbiol. 1995, 33:2233-2239.
33. Weary D.M., Taszkun I. Hock lesions and free-stall design. J. Dairy Sci. 2000, 83:697-702.
34. Zadoks R.N., van Leeuwen W.B., Kreft D., Fox L.K., Barkema H.W., Schukken Y.H., van Belkum A. Comparison of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from bovine and human skin, milking equipment, and bovine milk by phage typing, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, and binary typing. J. Clin. Microbiol. 2002, 40:3894-3902.
35. Zecconi A., Binda E., Borromeo V., Piccinini R. Relationship between some Staphylococcus aureus pathogenic factors and growth rates and somatic cell counts. J. Dairy Res. 2005, 72:203-208.
36. Zecconi A., Calvinho L.A., Fox L.K. Staphylococcus aureus intramammary infections. Bull. IDF 2006, 408:1-42.