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15 January 2008

Volume 46, Number 2
Clinical Infectious Diseases 2008;46:261–263
© 2007 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved.
1058-4838/2008/4602-0016$15.00
DOI: 10.1086/524672
BRIEF REPORT

Increase in a Dutch Hospital of Methicillin‐Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Related to Animal Farming

Miranda Maria Lucia van Rijen,1

Peter H. Van Keulen,1 and

Jan A. Kluytmans1,2

1Laboratory for Microbiology and Infection Control, Amphia Hospital, Breda, and 2Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, Vumc Medical University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

In The Netherlands, patients exposed to pigs or veal calves were recently shown to be at high risk of methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriage. In Amphia Hospital (Breda, The Netherlands), 32% of patients in this risk group were shown to carry MRSA. This resulted in a 3‐fold increase in the annual MRSA incidence.

Received 14 June 2007; accepted 4 September 2007; electronically published 10 December 2007.

Reprints or correspondence: Miranda van Rijen, Amphia Hospital, P.O. Box 90157, 4800 RL Breda, The Netherlands ().

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