Increase in a Dutch Hospital of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Related to Animal Farming
In The Netherlands, patients exposed to pigs or veal calves were recently shown to be at high risk of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriage. In Amphia Hospital (Breda, The Netherlands), 32% of patients in this risk group were shown to carry MRSA. This resulted in a 3-fold increase in the annual MRSA incidence.
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Dokumenttyp: | TEXT |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2008 |
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Oxford University Press
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Schlagwörter: | Brief Reports |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26632348 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/46/2/261 |