Emerging Infectious Diseases (Sep 2007)

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Pigs with Exudative Epidermitis

  • Engeline van Duijkeren,
  • Marc D. Jansen,
  • S. Carolien Flemming,
  • Han de Neeling,
  • Jaap A. Wagenaar,
  • Anky H.W. Schoormans,
  • Arie van Nes,
  • Ad C. Fluit

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1309.061268
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 9
pp. 1408 – 1408

Abstract

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Despite a strict control program for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in human medicine in the Netherlands, MRSA was cultured from exudative epidermitis lesions of 4 piglets on a breeding farm, 20 pigs on a supplier farm, and 2 workers on these farms. The MRSA strains were indistinguishable, suggesting direct transmission.

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