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Transmission through air as a possible route of exposure for MRSA.
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- From Farm to Fork: Antimicrobial-Resistant Bacterial Pathogens in Livestock Production and the Food Chain.Veterinary sciences · 2025Review
- The Role of the Environment (Water, Air, Soil) in the Emergence and Dissemination of Antimicrobial Resistance: A One Health Perspective.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Associations between acquired antimicrobial resistance genes in the upper respiratory tract and livestock farm exposures: a case-control study in COPD and non-COPD individuals.The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy · 2024Article
- Detection and genetic characterization of multidrug-resistant staphylococci isolated from public areas in an international airport.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Development of Livestock-Associated Methicillin-ResistantVeterinary sciences · 2024Article
- Prevalence and risk factors associated with nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant staphylococci in horses and their caregivers.Veterinary research · 2024Article
- Virulence attributes of successful methicillin-resistantClinical microbiology reviews · 2023Review
- A comparison of passive and active dust sampling methods for measuring airborne methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in pig farms.Annals of work exposures and health · 2023Article
- Nasal staphylococci community of healthy pigs and pig-farmers in Aragon (Spain). Predominance and within-host resistome diversity in MRSA-CC398 and MSSA-CC9 lineages.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2023Article
- Colonization of Extramammary Sites with Mastitis-AssociatedPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Survival of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus CC398 on different surface materials.Acta veterinaria Scandinavica · 2023Article
- Low-level colonization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in pigs is maintained by slowly evolving, closely related strains in Finnish pig farms.Acta veterinaria Scandinavica · 2022Article
- Transmission of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) during animal transport.EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2022Article
- A review of horses as a source of spreading livestock-associated methicillin-resistantVeterinary world · 2022Review
- Across-Shift Changes in Viable Nasal Bacteria among Waste-Incineration Plant Workers-A Pilot Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Assessment of listing and categorisation of animal diseases within the framework of the Animal Health Law (Regulation (EU) No 2016/429): antimicrobial-resistantEFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2022Article
- Electrostatic Dust Cloth: A Useful Passive Sampling Method When Assessing Exposure to Fungi Demonstrated in Studies Developed in Portugal (2018-2021).Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Prevalence of Livestock-Associated MRSA ST398 in a Swine Slaughterhouse in Guangzhou, China.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Staphylococci and fecal bacteria as bioaerosol components in animal housing facilities in the Zoological Garden in Chorzów.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021Article
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Abstract
Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) is highly prevalent in pigs and veal calves. The environment and air in pig and veal calf barns is often contaminated with LA-MRSA, and can act as a transmission source for humans. This study explores exposure-response relationships between sequence type 398 (ST398) MRSA air exposure level and nasal ST398 MRSA carriage in people working and/or living on farms. Samples and data were used from three longitudinal field studies in pig and veal calf farm populations. Samples consisted of nasal swabs from the human participants and electrostatic dust fall collectors capturing airborne settled dust in barns. In both multivariate and mutually adjusted analyses, a strong association was found between nasal ST398 MRSA carriage in people working in the barns for >20 h per week and MRSA air levels. In people working in the barns < 20 h per week there was a strong association between nasal carriage and number of working hours. Exposure to ST398 MRSA in barn air seems to be an important determinant for nasal carriage, especially in the highly exposed group of farmers, next to duration of contact with animals. Intervention measures should therefore probably also target reduction of ST398 MRSA air levels.
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