TY - JOUR AU - Armand-Lefevre, Laurence AU - Ruimy, Raymond AU - Andremont, Antoine T1 - Clonal Comparison of Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from Healthy Pig Farmers, Human Controls, and Pigs T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2005 VL - 11 IS - 5 SP - 711 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Pig farming is a risk factor for increased nasal Staphylococcus aureus colonization. Using sequence typing and phylogenetic comparisons, we showed that overcolonization of farmers was caused by a few bacterial strains that were not present in nonfarmers but often caused swine infections. This finding suggests a high rate of strain exchange between pigs and farmers. KW - S. aureus KW - Pig farmers KW - MLST KW - Phylogenetic distribution KW - France DO - 10.3201/eid1105.040866 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11/5/04-0866_article ER - End of Reference