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Changing characteristics of livestock-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated from humans - emergence of a subclade transmitted without livestock exposure, the Netherlands, 2003 to 2014.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 26 May 2016
Bosch Thijs, van Luit Martijn, Pluister Gerlinde N, Frentz Dineke, Haenen Anja, Landman Fabian, Witteveen Sandra, van Marm-Wattimena Naomi, van der Heide Han G, Schouls Leo M
Abstract excerpt
Since 2007, livestock-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) has become the predominant MRSA clade isolated from humans in the Netherlands. To assess possible temporal changes, we molecularly characterised over 9,000 LA-MRSA isolates submitted from 2003 to 2014 to the Dutch MRSA surveillance. After an initial rapid increase with a peak in 2009 (n = 1,368), the total number of submitted...
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