BACKGROUND: Cases of colonization or infection caused by Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are frequently reported in people who work with animals, including veterinary personnel. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of MRSA colonization among veterinary professionals. A total of 134 nasal swabs from healthy attendees of a veterinary conference held in the Czech Republic were tested for presence of MRSA. The stains were further genotypically and phenotypically characterized. RESULTS: Nine isolated MRSA strains were characterized with sequence type (ST), spa type (t) and Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec type. Five different genotypes were described, including ST398-t011-IV (n = 5), ST398-t2330-IV (n = 1), ST398-t034-V (n = 1), ST225-t003-II (n = 1) and ST4894-t011-IV (n = 1). The carriage of the animal MRSA strain was confirmed in 8 cases, characteristics of one strain corresponded to the possible nosocomial origin. Among animal strains were described three spa types (t011, t034, t2330) belonging into one dominating clonal complex spa-CC11. CONCLUSION: According to our results, the prevalence of nasal carriage of MRSA in veterinary personnel is 6.72%. Although we described an increase compared to the results of previous study (year 2008), the prevalence in the Czech Republic is still remaining lower than reported from neighboring countries. Our results also indicate that healthcare - associated MRSA strains are still not spread among animals.

• Klíčová slova
• Carriage, Companion animals, Czech Republic, Livestock, Livestock-associated MRSA, Veterinarians,
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• dospělí MeSH
• genotyp MeSH
• lidé středního věku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• methicilin rezistentní Staphylococcus aureus klasifikace   genetika   izolace a purifikace   MeSH
• nos mikrobiologie   MeSH
• pracovní expozice MeSH
• přenašečství epidemiologie   mikrobiologie   MeSH
• prevalence MeSH
• senioři MeSH
• stafylokokové infekce epidemiologie   MeSH
• studenti MeSH
• studium veterinárního lékařství MeSH
• veterináři * MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
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• dospělí MeSH
• lidé středního věku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• senioři MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Česká republika epidemiologie   MeSH

This article describes the two separate programs of veterinary education offered at the University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Brno, Czech Republic, which are directed to clinical veterinary medicine and to veterinary food safety, hygiene, and ecology, respectively. Both programs provide a level of training such that all graduates are competent for veterinary practice in any area of veterinary medicine; however, each offers an extended and deepened emphasis of training in clinical medicine, on the one hand, and food safety, on the other. A key feature is that the cohort of students for each program enters having pre-selected a career in one of these two areas. One of the important end results of this structure is that it fulfills the growing and important mission of providing a critical number of veterinarians in food safety and all of its allied fields.

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• Evropská unie MeSH
• hodnocení programu MeSH
• kurikulum MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• specializace MeSH
• studium veterinárního lékařství * ekonomika   metody   normy   MeSH
• veřejné zdravotnictví - vzdělávání odborné MeSH
• veterinární lékařství * ekonomika   normy   MeSH
• volba povolání MeSH
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• lidé MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• přehledy MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Česká republika MeSH

• MeSH
• akademický sbor lékařské fakulty dějiny   MeSH
• akademický sbor dějiny   MeSH
• dějiny 20. století MeSH
• genetika * výchova   dějiny   MeSH
• studenti zdravotnických povolání dějiny   psychologie   MeSH
• studenti dějiny   psychologie   MeSH
• studium lékařství * dějiny   MeSH
• studium veterinárního lékařství dějiny   MeSH
• veterinární lékařství * dějiny   MeSH
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• dějiny 20. století MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• historické články MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Československo etnologie   MeSH

Described is a computer software package, EPIZOO, which has been developed specifically for undergraduate and postgraduate education, self-training, problem-solving, and simulation studies in veterinary epidemiology. The program is based on action-oriented animal population health/disease analyses and programming. EPIZOO runs on IBM-compatible personal computers and can be used for any animal population diseases, including those transmissible to man. The software comprises an integral system of selected indicators contained in twelve modules, with about 200 widely applicable methods used in epizootiology. It is user-friendly and includes general methods related to the following: animal population characteristics of health/disease importance; analysis of animal population health and disease situations, structures, dynamics, diagnoses, and consequences; preparation, cost, and evaluation of animal population health programmes; and selected statistical techniques.

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• epidemiologie výchova   MeSH
• nemoci zvířat epidemiologie   MeSH
• počítačem řízená výuka * MeSH
• software * MeSH
• studium veterinárního lékařství * MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Check Tag
• zvířata MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Česká republika MeSH

The development of veterinary medicine in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic is evaluated on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the first lectures on veterinary science at Charles University in Prague (1784). Efforts to found a special veterinary school in Prague date back to the beginning of the 19th century; more than 20 petitions and interpellations concerning the establishment of such a school had been presented to the Bohemian Diet and the Imperial Parliament since 1841. The efforts for the establishment of this school were gradually conjoined with the national-revivalist and national-liberation movement. However, the veterinary university was established only in 1918, in Brno, when Czechoslovakia won independence. The development of veterinary medicine in the territory of today's Czechoslovakia is appreciated positively, mainly in the last 100 years. However, it was only after 1948--in the process of the transition from small-scale farming to large-scale socialist agricultural production--that all the needed practical and economic conditions were created for the development of veterinary medicine. The veterinary service was nationalized in 1951 and adequate material and technical backgrounds were built. Another veterinary university schools was introduced, and post-graduate studies and veterinary extension activities were started.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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• dějiny 19. století MeSH
• dějiny 20. století MeSH
• školy veterinární dějiny   MeSH
• studium veterinárního lékařství dějiny   MeSH
• veterinární lékařství dějiny   MeSH
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• dějiny 19. století MeSH
• dějiny 20. století MeSH
• Publikační typ
• anglický abstrakt MeSH
• časopisecké články MeSH
• historické články MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Československo MeSH

• MeSH
• dějiny 20. století MeSH
• studium veterinárního lékařství dějiny   MeSH
• veterinární lékařství dějiny   MeSH
• Check Tag
• dějiny 20. století MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• historické články MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Československo MeSH