TY - JOUR AU - Voss, Andreas AU - Loeffen, Frans AU - Bakker, Judith AU - Klaassen, Corne AU - Wulf, Mireille T1 - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Pig Farming T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2005 VL - 11 IS - 12 SP - 1965 SN - 1080-6059 AB - 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. KW - MRSA KW - pigs KW - farming KW - spa-typing KW - dispatch KW - the Netherlands DO - 10.3201/eid1112.050428 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11/12/05-0428_article ER - End of Reference