MRSA – a tale of two epidemics

MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) has caused one of the major debates of antimicrobial resistance in humans and pigs – how much are pigs to blame? MRSA strains have been a major problem in man especially associated with hospital infections but also increasingly in the community. The MRSA clone CC398, which has been found in many EU countries in pigs, is now is being found in man. It is mainly in countries which have high pig farm MRSA prevalence e.g. Netherlands, Germany, Spai