A total of 334 S. aureus recovered isolates (219 beef isolates [143 beef livers and 76 other beef cuts] and 115 pork isolates) were subjected to antimicrobial resistance profiling against 16 different antimicrobials that belong to ten different antibiotic classes (Table 4). As shown in Table 2 the percentage of resistance of the pork isolates was higher than beef isolates for all the antibiotics tested. The percentage of resistance of other beef cuts isolates was also higher than in beef liver isolates for almost all the antibiotics tested except rifampin and vancomycin. Resistance to oxacillin and cefoxitin was higher in the pork isolates (>40%) than in the beef ones despite the fact that no isolates in this study contained the mecA or mecC gene, so no genotypic MRSA was detected.