Table.
Positive MRSA-tests of sample takers. Tests were taken before, directly after and 24 hours after visiting a farm. MRSA-status is indicated as + (positive) and – (negative), spa-types are shown between brackets.
| Sample taker | farm MRSA-status (spa-type) | MRSA-test (spa-type) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| before visit | directly after visit | 24 hours after visit | ||
| 1 | + (t011) | − | + (t011) | − |
| 2 | + (t011) | − | + (t011) | − |
| 3 | + (t011) | − | + (t011) | − |
| + (t108) | − | + (t108) | − | |
| 4 | + (t108) | − | + (t108) | − |
| + (t011) | − | + (t011) | − | |
| + (t108) | − | + (t108) | − | |
| 5 | + (t011) | − | + (t108)b | − |
| 6 | + (t011, t108, t1456) | − | − | + (t108)c |
| 7 | + (t011, t108, t2330) | − | + (t108) | − |
| + (t567) | − | + (t567) | − | |
| 8 | + (t108) | − | + (t108) | − |
| 9 | + (t011) | − | + (t011) | + (t011)d |
| 10 | + (t011) | − | + (t011) | − |
| 11 | + (t108) | − | + (t108) | − |
| 12a | + (t899) | + (t011) | + (t011) | + (t011) |
| + (t011) | + (t011) | + (t011) | + (t011) | |
| − | + (t108) | + (t108) | + (t108) | |
a
Sample taker 12 has daily contact with poultry and is excluded from analysis.
b
Sample taker 5 reported no contact with livestock elsewhere than in this study at that moment (spa-types of sample taker 5 and farm are not corresponding).
c
Sample taker 6 tested MRSA-negative in following tests.
d
Sample taker 9 was not tested again.