Article
Methicillin-Resistant<i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>in Retail Meat, Detroit, Michigan, USA
2011-06-01
Abstract excerpt
To the Editor: Because methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been identified in retail meat worldwide (1-4), the potential exists for its transmission to humans. Of the various meat products surveyed, pork had the highest contamination rate in the United States and Canada (1,2), as did beef in Korea (3) and poultry in the Netherlands (4). The study in Korea also observed MRSA from chicken, which d...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 0d184f7c-bc7d-51cc-9975-d95353672d60
- DOI
- 10.3201/eid1706.101905
