Local and transboundary transmission of LA-MRSA 398 through pig trading

We have integrated WGS data of LA-MRSA ST398 isolated from pigs farmed inSouthern Italy with genome data available in international sequence repositories in order to trace the local and transboundary dissemination dynamics of LA-MRSA ST398. Our findings highlight the potential risk of transboundary transmission of antimicrobial-resistant bacterial clones with a high zoonotic potential when importing pigs from countries with high LA-MRSA prevalence.