Table 4. Carriage of MRSA MC398 and transmission events among livestock veterinarians and their household members during the one-year study period.
| Total n (%) | Persistent MRSA MC398 carriage n (%) | Intermittent MRSA MC398 carriagen (%) | Non-carriersn (%) | |
| Veterinarians | 135 (100) | 40 (29.6) | 41 (30.4) | 54 (40.0) |
| Household members | 386 | 123 | 114 | 149 |
| MRSA carriers among household members | 36 (9.3) | 23 (18.7) | 10 (8.8) | 3 (2.0) |
| Families with a transmission events | 28 (20.7) | 16 (40.0) | 9 (22.0) | 3 (5.6) |
| Confirmed transmission events to household membersa | 31 (8.0) | 22 (17.9) | 9 (7.9) | 0 (0.0) |
a
A confirmed transmission events was defined as that veterinarian and household members were both MRSA-positive during one sampling moment with the same MLVA type.