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Livestock veterinarians at high risk of acquiring methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Mar 2012
Garcia-Graells C, Antoine J, Larsen J, Catry B, Skov R, Denis O
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The prevalence and risk factors associated with livestock-associated MRSA (LA-MRSA) carriage was examined in Danish and Belgian veterinarians. The MRSA and LA-MRSA carriage rates were 9·5% (95% CI 5·3-15·6) and 7·5% (95% CI 3·8-13·1) for MRSA and LA-MRSA, respectively, in Belgium and 1·4% (95% CI: 0·17-5·05) in Denmark (all Danish MRSA isolates belonged to the LA-MRSA genotype). All LA-MRSA isolates were...
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