Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2006)

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Dutch Soccer Team

  • Xander Huijsdens,
  • Ans M.C. van Lier,
  • Eric van Kregten,
  • Liesbeth Verhoef,
  • Marga van Santen-Verheuvel,
  • Emile Spalburg,
  • Wim J.B. Wannet

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1210.060387
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 10
pp. 1584 – 1586

Abstract

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An outbreak of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus occurred among members and close contacts of a soccer team. Typing of the isolates showed the outbreak was caused by the well-known European ST80-IV strain. To our knowledge, this is the first report of an outbreak of this strain among members of a sports team.

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