Increase in a Dutch Hospital of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Related to Animal Farming
- 15 January 2008
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 46 (2) , 261-263
- https://doi.org/10.1086/524672
Abstract
In The Netherlands, patients exposed to pigs or veal calves were recently shown to be at high risk of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriage. In Amphia Hospital (Breda, The Netherlands), 32% of patients in this risk group were shown to carry MRSA. This resulted in a 3-fold increase in the annual MRSA incidence.Keywords
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