LA-MRSA is the acronym for "Livestock-associated MRSA ", where MRSA stands for "methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus", a species of MRSA that is associated with conventional animal fattening. This includes humans in close working contact with these animals (especially pigs, but also cattle for fattening and poultry for fattening) (Layer et al. 2012). In horse husbandry, for example, CA-MRSA, on the other hand, appear to be primarily a problem.
LA-MRSA plays a particular role for the following animal species: