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; Jan A J W Kluytmans

doi:10.3201/eid1311.070358

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in meat products, the Netherlands

Emerg Infect Dis. 2007 Nov;13(11):1753-5. doi: 10.3201/eid1311.070358.

Authors

Inge H M van Loo¹, 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, Jan A J W Kluytmans

Affiliation

¹ St. Elisabeth Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands.

Abstract

A new methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clone related to pig and cattle farming was detected in the Netherlands. We investigated the extent of S. aureus presence in meat and found 36 S. aureus strains in 79 samples. Two strains were MRSA; 1 was multilocus sequence type 398, the clone related to farming.

MeSH terms

Animals
Bacterial Typing Techniques
Cattle
Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field / methods
Food Microbiology
Meat Products / microbiology*
Methicillin Resistance / genetics*
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Netherlands
Staphylococcus aureus / drug effects
Staphylococcus aureus / isolation & purification*
Swine