TY - JOUR AU - Huijsdens, Xander AU - van Lier, AnsC. AU - van Kregten, Eric AU - Verhoef, Liesbeth AU - van Santen-Verheuvel, Marga AU - Spalburg, Emile AU - Wannet, Wim T1 - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Dutch Soccer Team T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2006 VL - 12 IS - 10 SP - 1584 SN - 1080-6059 AB - An outbreak of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus occurred among members and close contacts of a soccer team. Typing of the isolates showed the outbreak was caused by the well-known European ST80-IV strain. To our knowledge, this is the first report of an outbreak of this strain among members of a sports team. KW - Methicillin resistance KW - Staphylococcus aureus KW - community-acquired infections KW - Panton-Valentine leukocidin KW - sports KW - soccer KW - dispatch KW - the Netherlands DO - 10.3201/eid1210.060387 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/10/06-0387_article ER - End of Reference