Emergence of highly prevalent CA-MRSA ST93 as an occupational risk in people working on a pig farm in Australia.

The occurrence of livestock-associated (LA) MRSA (ST398) in pig herds has emerged as a threat to occupational safety in many parts of the world. Recently, an outbreak of skin lesions due to MRSA occurred in workers at a pig farm in regional Australia and both the humans and pigs were shown to have a...

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Main Authors: Shafi Sahibzada, Marta Hernández-Jover, David Jordan, Peter C Thomson, Jane Heller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5931470?pdf=render