This is the first brief communication of clinical mastitis caused by Staphylococcus aureus occurring in a white-eared opossum (Didelphis albiventris) captured in a remnant of the Atlantic Forest in northeast Brazil. The bacterium was cultured from a milk sample by using sheep blood and Levine agars. Phenotyping of S. aureus was performed with coagulase biochemical tests, DNase agar, mannitol agar, and anaerobic glucose and mannitol fermentation.
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1 September 2010
Staphylococcus aureus Mastitis in a White-Eared Opossum (Didelphis albiventris) in the Atlantic Forest of Northeast Brazil
Daniel B. Siqueira,
Filipe M. Aléssio,
Rinaldo A. Mota,
Maria Fernanda Vianna Marvulo,
Jean-François Mauffrey,
Sandra R. D. Monteiro,
Roberto C. Farias,
Ricardo C. S. C. Cunha,
Rafael L. Oliveira,
Tatiana C. N. R. Souza,
Elizabeth S. Medeiros,
Jean C. R. Silva
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Brazil
Didelphis albiventris
mastitis
public health
Staphylococcus aureus