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Increase in a Dutch hospital of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus related to animal farming.

van Rijen MM, Van Keulen PH, Kluytmans JA

Laboratory for Microbiology and Infection Control, Amphia Hospital, Breda, The Netherlands. mvrijen@amphia.nl

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.

Published 3 January 2008 in Clin Infect Dis, 46(2): 261-3.
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