Table 53.
Meticillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus in food‐producing animals (excluding clinical investigations), 2017
| Country | Production type/monitoring description (where specified)) | Sample unit | Number | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Units tested | Positive for MRSA (%) | |||
| Cattle (bovine animals) | ||||
| Germany | Calves (under or around 1 year), nasal swabs – Slaughterhouse Monitoring – active | Animal | 348 | 138 (39.7%)h |
| Switzerland | Calves (under 1 year), nasal swabs ‐ Slaughterhouse Monitoring | Animal | 297 | 24 (8.1%)a |
| Gallus gallus (fowl) | ||||
| Belgium | Broilers – Farm Surveillance | Herd/flock | 80 | 2 (2.5%)b |
| Laying hens – Farm Surveillance | Herd/flock | 236 | 3 (1.3%)c | |
| Pigs | ||||
| Finland | Fattening pigs, nasal swabs – Slaughterhouse Survey – National Survey | Slaughter batch | 61 | 47 (77.0%)d |
| Germany | Fattening pigs, boot swabs ‐ OFM – active | Herd/flock | 341 | 130 (38.1%)h |
| Netherlands | Breeding animals – OFM – active | Animal | 70 | 1 (1.4%)h |
| Norway | OFCEP, hide sample | Herd/flock | 826 | 3 (0.4%)e |
| Spain | Fattening pigs, nasal swabs – Slaughterhouse Monitoring – EFSA specifications | Slaughter batch | 323 | 292 (90.4%)f |
| Switzerland | Fattening pigs, nasal swabs – Slaughterhouse Monitoring | Animal | 298 | 131 (44.0%)g |
OFM: On‐farm monitoring; OFCEP: On‐farm control and eradication programme.
spa‐types: t011 (14 isolates), t034 (7), t127 (1), t17339 (2). PVL status of the t127 isolate was not reported.
spa‐types: t011 CC398 (1 isolate), t1456 CC398 (1).
spa‐types: t011 CC398 (2 isolates), t1456 CC398 (1).
spa‐types: t034 (32 isolates), t2741 (25), t011 (9), t108 (6), t1250 (1), t1255 (1), t17061 (1). NB. All MRSA isolates were subject to spa‐typing; from one slaughter batch, up to three different spa‐types were detected. Therefore, the total number of individual spa‐types exceeds the number of positive batches.
spa‐types: t091 CC7 (1 isolate), t843 CC130 (1), t6292 CC425 (1). The t091 isolate was PVL negative.
spa‐types: t011 (203 isolates), t034 (32), t108 (14), t109 (1), t899 (2), t1197 (11), t1255 (2), t1451 (13), t1606 (1), t2011 (5), t2346 (1), t2748 (1), t3041 (2), t4208 (2), t17304 (1), t17627 (1).
spa‐types: t034 (63 isolates), t011 (61), t899 (2), t1451 (3), t2330 (1), t2876 (1).
spa‐types not reported.