Prevalence of virulence- and antibiotic resistance-associated genotypes and phenotypes in <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> strains from the food sector compared to clinical and cow mastitis isolates.

"p-values <0 05 were considered statistically significant 2 11 the genome assemblies of 11 s aureus strains were deposited in the ddbj/ena/genbank database under the following accession numbers: cp134618-cp134619 (ipla15) cp134617 (ipla16) cp134620 (sa9) javrxu000000000 (ipla1) javrxt000000000 (ipla3) javrxs000000000 (ipla5) javrxr000000000 (ipla11) javrxq000000000 (ipla13) javrxv000000000 (ipla19) javrxx000000000 (sa5) and javrxw000000000 (sa7) 3 3 1 the aim of this study was the genomic and phenotypic comparison of 18 s aureus strains from different origins including 5 from cows with mastitis (v329 sa9 sa5 sa7 ipla19) 4 from the meat industry (ipla11 ipla13 ipla15 ipla16) 3 from the dairy industry (ipla1 ipla3 ipla5) 4 from the clinic (je2 mw2 132 newman) and 2 laboratory strains (sh1000 and rn4220) derived from the clinical strain s aureus nctc 8325 ( table 1 )."

"Conflict of interest The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest."

"The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was funded by grants MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/FEDER, UE, grant number PID2022-140988OB-I00, awarded to PG and LF, PID2019-105311RB-I00 (MICIU/AEI/FEDER, UE, Spain) to PG and AR, and AYUD/2021/52120 (Program of Science, Technology and Innovation 2021-2023, FICYT and FEDER EU, Principado de Asturias, Spain). AJ was awarded a JAE-Intro Scholarship (CSIC, Spain) and is currently a fellow of the program “Ayudas Severo Ochoa” of the Principality of Asturias."