Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Pig Farming

By A. Voss, F. Loeffen, J. Bakker, C. Klaassen, M. Wulf. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005

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We conducted a study among a group of 26 regional pig farmers to determine the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus prevalence rate and found it was >760 times greater than the rate of patients admitted to Dutch hospitals. While spa-type t108 is apparently a more widespread clone among pig farmers and their environment, we did find other spa-types.

Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases

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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Molecular Characterization, Evolution, and Epidemiology (2018, background): “In contrast, MRSA infections in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands have remained occasional even in health care settings.”
Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcal Food-Borne Disease: An Ongoing Challenge in Public Health (2014, background): “Compared to the general population, Dutch pig farmers are 760 times more likely to be colonized with MRSA [82].”
Food Animals and Antimicrobials: Impacts on Human Health (2011, background): “All isolates had identical random amplified polymorphic DNA profiles (155).”
Ecology of zoonoses: natural and unnatural histories (2012, background): “56, 68 Several pathways exist through which antimicrobial-resistant zoonotic pathogens could be transmitted from livestock to people, including through food consumption, direct contact with treated animals, waste management, use of manure as fertiliser, faecal contamination of run-off , movement of ”
Staphylococcus aureus CC398: Host Adaptation and Emergence of Methicillin Resistance in Livestock (2012, background): “Human colonization with LA-MRSA multilocus sequence type 398 (ST398) was first recognized among swine farmers in France and The Netherlands in the early 2000s (2, 3).”
Antimicrobial resistance: A global emerging threat to public health systems (2017, result): “Despite this mode of transmission has not a relevant public health significance, the infected workers or their families might constitute a port-of-entry of resistant genes in the community and hospital environments as demonstrated by several studies (Lyons et al., 1980; Voss et al., 2005).”