| [occurrence of mrsa in pigs and in humans involved in pig production--preliminary results of a study in the northwest of germany]. | in 2007, 678 pigs of all age groups out of 347 different farms from lower saxony and northrhine-westphalia and 86 persons occupationally exposed to pigs were investigated for their nasal colonisation with methicillin-resistant staphylococcus areus (mrsa) by the field station for epidemiology of the university of veterinary medicine hannover and the robert koch-institute. at the individual animal level, a frequency of positive results of 13% (n = 85 positive animals) and at the herd level, a freq ... | 2008 | 18500146 |