TY - JOUR AU - Juhász-Kaszanyitzky, Éva AU - Jánosi, Szilárd AU - Somogyi, Pál AU - Dán, Ádám AU - van Bloois, Linda vanderGraaf AU - van Duijkeren, Engeline AU - Wagenaar, Jaap A. T1 - MRSA Transmission between Cows and Humans T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2007 VL - 13 IS - 4 SP - 630 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We isolated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from cows with subclinical mastitis and from a person who worked with these animals. The bovine and human strains were indistinguishable by phenotyping and genotyping methods and were of a low frequency spa type. To our knowledge, this finding indicates the first documented case of direct transmission of MRSA between cows and humans. KW - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus KW - cows KW - mastitis KW - zoonosis KW - phage types KW - PFGE KW - SCCmec type KW - spa-typing KW - MLST KW - dispatch KW - Hungary DO - 10.3201/eid1304.060833 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13/4/06-0833_article ER - End of Reference