Emergence of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus of Animal Origin in Humans

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2008 Feb 9

PMID 18258032

Citations 157

Authors

Inge van Loo

Xander Huijsdens

Edine Tiemersma

Albert de Neeling

Nienke van de Sande-Bruinsma

Desiree Beaujean

Andreas Voss

Jan Kluytmans

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Abstract

In 2003 in the Netherlands, a new methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strain emerged that could not be typed with Sma1 pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (NT-MRSA). The association of NT-MRSA in humans with a reservoir in animals was investigated. The frequency of NT-MRSA increased from 0% in 2002 to >21% after intensified surveillance was implemented in July 2006. Geographically, NT-MRSA clustered with pig farming. A case-control study showed that carriers of NT-MRSA were more often pig or cattle farmers (pig farmers odds ratio [OR] 12.2, 95% confidence interval [CI] 3.1-48.6; cattle farmers OR 19.7, 95% CI 2.3-169.5). Molecular typing showed that the NT-MRSA strains belonged to a new clonal complex, ST 398. This study shows that MRSA from an animal reservoir has recently entered the human population and is now responsible for >20% of all MRSA in the Netherlands.

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