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increase in a dutch hospital of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus related to animal farming.

in the netherlands, patients exposed to pigs or veal calves were recently shown to be at high risk of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) carriage. in amphia hospital (breda, the netherlands), 32% of patients in this risk group were shown to carry mrsa. this resulted in a 3-fold increase in the annual mrsa incidence.