MRSA prevalence and distribution of spa types, SCCmec types and antimicrobial resistance clusters at different steps of the German turkey meat production chain in 2010.

aMRSA isolates which did not exactly correspond to the monitoring sampling plan in terms of completeness of data reporting to the national level were excluded from prevalence estimations but included in further typing and strain comparisons.bNot typable.cResistance cluster were calculated using Ward’s minimum variance with squared Euclidean distance.