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Several sources of MRSA

A known source of MRSA is the type people can get when admitted to hospital ('hospital acquired', HA-MRSA). MRSA is therefore sometimes referred to as a “hospital bacterium”. In the Netherlands the risk of infection in hospital is very small. The risk is far greater in many other western countries (http://). People can also acquire MRSA outside hospitals; MRSA types which do not belong to the hospital group are referred to as 'community-acquired' (CA-MRSA).

Since 2003 there has been a variant which cannot be typed using the usual methods, and is therefore referred to as “non-typable“ or NT-MRSA. This type of MRSA was relatively rare, and was later found to occur largely on livestock farms.

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