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The presence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus on large pig breeding farms in Croatia.
Acta veterinaria Hungarica - 1 Dec 2011
Habrun Boris, Račić Ivana, Beck Relja, Budimir Ana, Benić Miroslav, Kompes Gordan, Spičić Silvio, Cvetnić Zeljko
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have emerged worldwide and have become resistant to a variety of antibiotics. MRSA colonisation in pigs was first reported from the Netherlands in 2005, where pigs were implicated as a source of human MRSA infections (Voss et al., 2005). This paper presents the first report on the presence of MRSA on large pig breeding farms in Croatia, together with the...
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