Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in people living and working in pig farms

We compared the prevalence of human and animal methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) at pig farms in The Netherlands, and related this to individual and farm-level characteristics. More than half of the farms investigated (28/50) had MRSA in pigs or stable dust and about one third (15/50) of person(s) were identified as MRSA carriers. Human carriage was found only on farms with MRSA-positive pigs or dust. MRSA strains in human samples were the same spa-type as found in pigs and all were not typable by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (NT-MRSA). Multivariate analyses showed that risk factors for human MRSA carriage were: working in pig stables (OR 40, 95% CI 8¿209) and the presence of sows and finishing pigs (OR 9, 95% CI 3¿30). Veterinary sample collectors sampling the pigs showed transient MRSA carriage only during the day of the farm visit. Working in pig stables with MRSA-positive pigs poses a high risk for acquiring MRSA, increasingly so when contact with live pigs is more intensive or long lasting

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Main Authors:	van den Broek, I.V.F., van Cleef, B.A.G.L., Haenen, A., Broens, E.M., van der Wolf, P.J., van den Broek, M.J.M., Huijsdens, X.W., Kluytmans, J.A.J.W., van de Giessen, A.W., Tiemersma, E.W.
Format:	Article/Letter to editor biblioteca
Language:	English
Subjects:	colonization, humans, intensive-care-unit, mrsa, netherlands, prevalence, st398, strains,
Online Access:	https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/methicillin-resistant-staphylococcus-aureus-in-people-living-and-
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