作者
Pete Kinross, Andreas Petersen, Robert Skov, Evelyn Van Hauwermeiren, Annalisa Pantosti, Frédéric Laurent, Andreas Voss, Jan Kluytmans, Marc J Struelens, Ole Heuer, Dominique L Monnet, European Human LA-MRSA Study Group
发表日期
2017/11/2
期刊
Eurosurveillance
卷号
22
期号
44
页码范围
16-00696
出版商
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
简介
Currently, surveillance of livestock-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) in humans in Europe is not systematic but mainly event-based. In September 2014, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) initiated a questionnaire to collect data on the number of LA-MRSA from human samples (one isolate per patient) from national/regional reference laboratories in European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries in 2013. Identification of LA-MRSA as clonal complex (CC) 398 by multilocus sequence typing (MLST) was preferred, although surrogate methods such as spa-typing were also accepted. The questionnaire was returned by 28 laboratories in 27 EU/EEA countries. Overall, LA-MRSA represented 3.9% of 13,756 typed MRSA human isolates, but it represented ≥ 10% in five countries (Belgium, Denmark, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovenia …
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