Author/Editor     Kinross, P; Petersen, Andreas; Skov, Robert; Van Hauwermeiren, Evelyn; Pantosti, Annalisa; Laurent, Frederic; Voss, Andreas; Kluytmans, Jan; Struelens, Marc; Heuer, Ole E; Monnet, Dominique L.; Dermota, Urška
Title     Livestock-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among human MRSA isolates, European Union/European Economic Area countries, 2013
Type     članek
Vol. and No.     Letnik 22, št. 44
Publication year     2017
Volume     str. 1-13
ISSN     1560-7917 - Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin
Language     eng
Abstract     Currently, surveillance of livestock-associated meticillin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) in humans in Europe is not systematic but mainly eventbased. In September 2014, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) initiated a questionnaire to collect data on the number of LA-MRSA from human samples (one isolate per patient) from national/regional reference laboratories in European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries in 2013. Identification of LA-MRSA as clonal complex (CC) 398 by multilocus sequence typing (MLST) was preferred, although surrogate methods such as spatyping were also accepted. The questionnaire was returned by 28 laboratories in 27 EU/EEA countries. Overall, LA-MRSA represented 3.9% of 13,756 typed MRSA human isolates, but it represented >-10% in five countries (Belgium, Denmark, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovenia). Seven of the reference laboratories did not type MRSA isolates in 2013. To monitor the dispersion of LA-MRSA and facilitate targeted control measures, we advocate periodic systematic surveys or integrated multi-sectorial surveillance.
Keywords     MRSA
meticillin
Europe
MRSA
meticillin
Evropa