Abstract
A survey of 280 attendees at a veterinary meeting in the Czech Republic in 2008 revealed a carriage rate of 0.7% for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The two strains isolated were of distinct genetic lineages, carried type IV SCC mec determinants and were negative for Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes. The MRSA positivity rates for veterinarians in the Czech Republic is considerably lower than reported elsewhere. © 2009 Cambridge University Press.
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Žemličková, H., Fridrichová, M., Tyllová, K., Jakubů, V., & Machová, I. (2009). Carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in veterinary personnel. Epidemiology and Infection, 137(9), 1233–1236. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268809002015
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