Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in pigs with exudative epidermitis.
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.
van Duijkeren
Engeline
E
Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. e.vanduijkeren@vet.uu.nl
Jansen
Marc D
MD
Flemming
S Carolien
SC
de Neeling
Han
H
Wagenaar
Jaap A
JA
Schoormans
Anky H W
AH
van Nes
Arie
A
Fluit
Ad C
AC
D000818:Animals; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002353:Carrier State; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000662:veterinary; D006801:Humans; D016106:Methicillin Resistance; D013207:Staphylococcal Skin Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013552:Swine; D013553:Swine Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents