Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in meat products, the Netherlands.
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.
van Loo
Inge H M
IH
St. Elisabeth Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands.
Diederen
Bram M W
BM
Savelkoul
Paul H M
PH
Woudenberg
Joyce H C
JH
Roosendaal
Robert
R
van Belkum
Alex
A
Lemmens-den Toom
Nicole
N
Verhulst
Carlo
C
van Keulen
Peter H J
PH
Kluytmans
Jan A J W
JA
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