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No apparent transmission of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus CC398 in a survey of staff at a regional Danish hospital

Overview of attention for article published in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, December 2017
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Title
No apparent transmission of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus CC398 in a survey of staff at a regional Danish hospital
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Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, December 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13756-017-0284-y
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Else Toft Würtz, Jakob Hjort Bønløkke, Tinna Ravnholt Urth, Jesper Larsen, Md Zohorul Islam, Torben Sigsgaard, Vivi Schlünssen, Troels Skou, Anne Mette Madsen, Louise Feld, Saloomeh Moslehi-Jenabian, Robert Leo Skov, Øyvind Omland

Abstract

In recent years, livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) multi locus sequence type CC398 has spread widely in the livestock production in Europe. The rates of LA-MRSA in hospitals have been found to be largely determined by contact to and density of livestock in the area. This is a cross sectional study of the prevalence of LA-MRSA among hospital staff in a Danish hospital situated in a livestock production region. We analysed nasal swabs, air and dust samples for the presence of MRSA using PCR and mass spectrometry. Of 1745 employees, 545 (31%) contributed nasal swabs. MRSA was not detected in any participant, nor was it detected in air or dust at the hospital or in houses of employees living on farms. Four percent of the participants had contact to pigs either directly or through household members. LA-MRSA was detected in two of 26 samples from animal sheds, both of them from pig farms. The participation rate was relatively low, but participants were representative for the source population with regards to animal contact and job titles. The study suggests a low point prevalence of LA-MRSA carriage in Danish hospital staff even in regions where livestock production is dense. Should more studies confirm our findings we see no need for additional hospital precautions towards LA-MRSA in Denmark at the moment. We think that our data might reduce potential stigmatization of hospital workers with contact to LA-MRSA positive farms at their work places and in their communities.

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Unknown 53 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 10 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 13%
Student > Master 6 11%
Student > Bachelor 5 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 8%
Other 10 19%
Unknown 11 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 26%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 15%
Immunology and Microbiology 6 11%
Environmental Science 4 8%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 3 6%
Other 7 13%
Unknown 11 21%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 December 2017.
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#13,740,062
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#798
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