Volume 13, Number 11—November 2007
Dispatch
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Meat Products, the Netherlands
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.