MRSA-ST398 in livestock farmers and neighbouring residents in a rural area in Germany

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 140, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1800-1808

  Bisdorff, B ^a   Scholholter J L ^a   Claussen K ^b   Pulz, M ^b   Nowak, D ^a   Radon, K ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Governmental Institute of Public Health of Lower Saxony   (Germany)

Author keywords

Factory farming dense area; livestock; MRSA ST398; prevalence; risk factors; rural residents

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONFINED ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIONS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LIVESTOCK; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; POPULATION DENSITY; POULTRY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SWINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CARRIER STATE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LIVESTOCK; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RURAL POPULATION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865525903     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268811002378     Document Type: Article

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