Which sentence is true about strains of livestock associated MRSA (LA-MRSA)
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One anomaly of LA-MRSA is that while exposure risk is overwhelmingly concentrated in people working with animals, approximately a third of reported clinical cases have occurred in people without livestock contact. Livestock strains carry fewer virulence genes, are less transmissible among humans, and typically cause less severe disease than human strains.
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