MRSA was isolated from the environment in this study with the prevalence
2.88% which was lower than the results from the study in the USA (17.3%) (Frana et
al., 2013).Staphylococci in the farming environment could serve as a source of MRSA
type as it was generally easily detectable in both pig and the environmental samples
(Hanssen and Ericson, 2006). Our results showed that only one farm had MRSA
positive samples from both pigs and the farm environment, and no farms had MRSA
positive samples from both pigs and pig workers.