TY - JOUR AU - Qekwana, Daniel N. AU - Oguttu, James W. AU - Sithole, Fortune AU - Odoi, Agricola PY - 2017 DA - 2017/04/28 TI - Patterns and predictors of antimicrobial resistance among Staphylococcus spp. from canine clinical cases presented at a veterinary academic hospital in South Africa JO - BMC Veterinary Research SP - 116 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - Antimicrobial resistance in staphylococci, often associated with treatment failure, is increasingly reported in veterinary medicine. The aim of this study was to investigate patterns and predictors of antimicrobial resistance among Staphylococcus spp. isolates from canine samples submitted to the bacteriology laboratory at the University of Pretoria academic veterinary hospital between 2007 and 2012. Retrospective data of 334 Staphylococcus isolates were used to calculate the proportion of samples resistant to 15 antimicrobial agents. The Cochran-Armitage trend test was used to investigate temporal trends and logistic regression models were used to investigate predictors of antimicrobial resistance in Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus pseudintermedius. SN - 1746-6148 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-017-1034-3 DO - 10.1186/s12917-017-1034-3 ID - Qekwana2017 ER -