title: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in meat products, the Netherlands.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: St. Elisabeth Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Inge H M
authors.initials: IH
authors.lastname: van Loo
authors.forename: Bram M W
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Diederen
authors.forename: Paul H M
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Savelkoul
authors.forename: Joyce H C
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Woudenberg
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Roosendaal
authors.forename: Alex
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: van Belkum
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lemmens-den Toom
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Verhulst
authors.forename: Peter H J
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: van Keulen
authors.forename: Jan A J W
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Kluytmans
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D002417:Cattle; D016521:Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field / Q000379:methods; D005516:Food Microbiology; D008461:Meat Products / Q000382:microbiology*; D016106:Methicillin Resistance / Q000235:genetics*; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D009426:Netherlands; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013552:Swine