MRSAspat1081, a Highly Transmissible Strain Endemic to Hong Kong, China, in the Netherlands

Paul Gruteke,Pak-Leung Ho,Anja Haenen,Chi-Ho Lin,Wai-U Lo,Albert J De Neeling

doi:10.3201/eid2106.141597

Abstract

MRSA<i>spa</i>t1081, a Highly Transmissible Strain Endemic to Hong Kong, China, in the Netherlands

Highlights

The Netherlands is among countries in Europe that have a low prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among humans, largely because of a national search and destroy policy [1]
The low prevalence of MRSA enables the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (Bilthoven, the Netherlands) to type all first MRSA isolates referred from clinical laboratories in the Netherlands
The search and destroy policy in the Netherlands requires that detection of MRSA infection is followed by screening of neighboring patients and personnel in successive circles until no new colonizations are found

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Introduction

3. O’Guinn ML, Klein TA, Lee JS, Richards AL, Kim HC, Ha SJ, et al Serological surveillance of scrub typhus, murine typhus, and leptospirosis in small mammals captured at Firing Points 10 and 60, Gyeonggi Province, Republic of Korea, 2001–2005. Ko S, Kim HC, Yang YC, Chong ST, Richards AL, Sames WJ, et al Detection of Rickettsia felis and Rickettsia typhi and seasonal prevalence of fleas collected from small mammals at Gyeonggi Province in the Republic of Korea. MRSA spa t1081, a Highly Transmissible Strain Endemic to Hong Kong, China, in the Netherlands

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