LA-MRSA in horses

Towards the end of the 1990s, MRSA was associated with postoperative wound infection in horses for the first time. One of the first direct correlations between MRSA-related illness in a human with direct contact to infected horses was described. A 2013 Israeli study indicated the definite possibility of MRSA transmission between humans and animals, and in the context of sampling 84 horses and 139 people, MRSA was detected in 14.3% and 11.5% of sampled horses and humans, respectively. The dominant MRSA type here was MLST ST5, spa type t535 SCCmec type V, PVL negative (Schwaber et al. 2013).

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