Emerging Infectious Diseases (Nov 2007)

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Meat Products, the Netherlands

  • Inge H.M. van Loo,
  • Bram M.W. Diederen,
  • Paul H.M. Savelkoul,
  • Joyce H.C. Woudenberg,
  • Robert Roosendaal,
  • Alex van Belkum,
  • Nicole Lemmens-den Toom,
  • Carlo Verhulst,
  • Peter H.J. van Keulen,
  • Jan Kluytmans

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1311.070358
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 11
pp. 1753 – 1755

Abstract

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A new methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clone related to pig and cattle farming was detected in the Netherlands. We investigated the extent of S. aureus presence in meat and found 36 S. aureus strains in 79 samples. Two strains were MRSA; 1 was multilocus sequence type 398, the clone related to farming.

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