Marga G van Santen-Verheuvel

TL;DR: A MRSA cluster among family members of a pig-farmer, his co-workers and his pigs shows clonal spread and transmission between humans and pigs in the Netherlands and puts the until now successful Search and Destroy policy of the Netherlands at risk.

TL;DR: The MLVA described in this study is a high throughput, relatively low cost genotyping method for S. aureus that yields discrete and unambiguous data that can be used to assign biological meaningful genotypes and complexes andCan be used for interlaboratory comparisons in network accessible databases.

TL;DR: An outbreak of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus occurred among members and close contacts of a soccer team as discussed by the authors, which was caused by the well-known European ST80-IV strain.

TL;DR: It is suggested that pigs are a more important source of VREF for humans than chickens and that human- and pig-derived VSEF isolates seem much more heterogeneous than VREF isolates.

TL;DR: The characteristics, gene content and diversity of the bla OXA-48-like carrying plasmids and chromosomes of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae collected in the Dutch national surveillance from 2014 to 2019 in comparison with genome sequences from 29 countries were investigated in this paper.