Volume 13, Number 11—November 2007
Dispatch
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Meat Products, the Netherlands
Inge H.M. van Loo*, Bram M.W. Diederen*, Paul H.M. Savelkoul†, Joyce H.C. Woudenberg†, Robert Roosendaal†, Alex van Belkum‡, Nicole Lemmens-den Toom‡, Carlo Verhulst§, Peter H.J. van Keulen§, and Jan Kluytmans†§
Table 2
Number of MSSA and MRSA strains in pork and beef, by culture system, the Netherlands, 2006*†
| Meat | Total no. samples | Single enrichment broth |
Single and double enrichment broth |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MSSA strains | MRSA strains | No. positive samples | MSSA strains | MRSA strains | No. positive samples | |||
| Pork | 64 | 24 | 1 | 24 | 29 | 2 | 29 | |
| Beef |
15 |
5 |
0 |
5 |
5 |
0 |
5 |
|
| Total | 79 | 29 | 1 | 29 | 34 | 2 | 34 | |
*MSSA, methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus; MRSA, methicillin-resistant S. aureus.
†No S. aureus was found by direct culture.
