Antimicrobial Susceptibility and Methicillin Resistance in Staphylococcus pseudintermedius and Staphylococcus schleiferi subsp, coagulans Isolated from Dogs with Pyoderma in Japan.

The article presents the results of a study on the capability of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius and Staphylococcus schleiferi taken from dogs with pyoderma in Japan to resist antimicrobial drugs and methicillin. According to the authors, isolates of coagulase-positive staphylococci (CoPS) have a high level of resistance to the antimicrobials usually used for treatment against staphylococcal infections. They add that the common cases of canine pyoderma were a high level of methicillin-resistant CoPS (MRCoPS). They also indicate remarkable differences in antimicrobial susceptibilities between staphylococcal species and between methicillin-susceptible CoPS and MRCoPS strains.