Letter to the editor: Seafarers: a new risk group for meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

摘要

From our experience with ‘search and destroy’ (S and D) in the Netherlands, we learned that it is essential to evaluate and timely enlarge risk categories when epi- demiology changes to prevent MRSA of unknown ori- gin (MUO), i.e. not fitting any defined risk factors [2]. Herewith, we report our recent finding of a previously unrecognised risk group for MRSA: seafarers.