Turkey Meat as Source of CC9/CC398 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Humans?

Clin Infect Dis. 2017 Jan 1;64(1):102-103. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciw687. Epub 2016 Oct 6.

Authors

Alexandra Fetsch¹, Britta Kraushaar¹, Annemarie Käsbohrer², Jens André Hammerl²

Affiliations

¹ National Reference Laboratory for Coagulase-Positive Staphylococci, Including S. aureus.
² National Reference Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance, Department of Biological Safety, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Animals
Humans
Meat / microbiology*
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / genetics
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / isolation & purification*
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / virology
Poland / epidemiology
Poultry Diseases* / epidemiology
Poultry Diseases* / microbiology
Poultry Diseases* / transmission
Staphylococcal Infections* / epidemiology
Staphylococcal Infections* / microbiology
Staphylococcal Infections* / transmission
Staphylococcus Phages / genetics
Turkeys / microbiology*