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H5N1: US: A new superbug: MRSA ST398. A relatively new type of drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus could represent the world’s next bacterial epidemic, an environmental health expert said here today at a conference for science writers. The superbug, called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus...
Prevalence of methicillin-resistant staphylococci in northern Colorado shelter animals. Samples were collected from 200 cats and 200 dogs in an open admission shelter. Each species was divided into 2 smaller groups: 100 dogs or cats housed in the stray ward...
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Plasmid-borne vga(A)-encoding gene in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 recovered from swine and a swine farmer in the United States. We report a novel vga(A) detected in 3 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 recovered from swine and a swine caretaker in the...
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The Horse | Dutch Girl Contracts MRSA from Friesian Foal, Recovers. 16-year-old Dutch girl has recovered after having supposedly acquired an antibiotic-resistant staph wound infection from her Friesian foal, according to a Dutch researcher. This is only the third study...
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Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) -- Fravel et al. 169 (6): 155 -- Veterinary Record. MRSA has been isolated from most domestic animal species. Strains isolated from dogs and cats are usually human-associated strains ( Loeffler...
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Screening of poultry-pig farms for methicillin-res... [Infect Genet Evol. 2011] - PubMed result. Therefore this study aimed to determine the most suitable sample location in broiler chickens for MRSA and the within flock prevalence of MRSA in various broiler flocks...
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USDA Knows of Link Between Factory Meat and MRSA - Healthy People, Healthy Planet Blog. The U.S. Department of Agriculture really, really doesn’t want us to read this report, which proves the connection between factory meat and MRSA, the antibiotic-resistant...
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Banning agricultural antibiotic use is a false solution | AGWEB.com. At the end of the day, strict focus on eliminating use of subtherapeutic antibiotic use in livestock is a case of target fixation (fixated on the target – livestock lest...
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Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with a novel mecA homologue in human and bovine populations in the UK and Denmark: a descriptive study : The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Background Animals can act as a reservoir and source for the emergence of novel...
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Detection of the staphylococcal multiresistance gene cfr in Proteus vulgaris of food animal origin. Results A single Proteus vulgaris isolate, which carried the genes floR and cfr, was detected in this study. A cfr-carrying segment of 7 kb with homology...
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