Letter to the editor: Livestock-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA), Austria, 2013
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Letter to the editor: Livestock-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA), Austria, 2013
To the editor: In their article titled ‘Livestock-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) among human MRSA isolates, European Union/ European Economic Area countries, 2013’, Kinross et al. recently reported on the occurrence of LA-MRSA in humans [1]. The results were obtained by an ECDC initiated study documenting the identification of LA-MRSA (i.e. CC398 and ‘other’ LA-...
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عنوان ژورنال: Eurosurveillance
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1560-7917
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es.2017.22.46.17-00758