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Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/iceid-1-staph/
Staph In Pigs And Pig Farmers: The Latest Reports (ICEID 1)
* By Maryn McKenna
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* March 12, 2012
I?m spending the first part of this week at the International Conference for Emerging Infectious Diseases, a biennial scary-disease nerdgasm that is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
...On Monday?s agenda, among other intriguing talks: Two updates on MRSA, methicillin-resistant S. aureus, among farmers in two states...
...No one can say at this point how big it might get in the United States, in part because few teams other than Smith?s are looking for it. But it?s important to keep track because, in the back-and-forth arguments over the influence of agricultural antibiotic use on resistance, LA-MRSA represents something unusual: an organism whose resistance to tetracycline indicates farm-drug exposure...
...There were two presentations at ICEID Monday on LA-MRSA, which also goes by the designation ST398 for the result it usually returns in the molecular test MLST, multi-locus sequence typing. Both presentations demonstrate how perplexing the bug continues to be...
Staph In Pigs And Pig Farmers: The Latest Reports (ICEID 1)
* By Maryn McKenna
* Email Author
* March 12, 2012
I?m spending the first part of this week at the International Conference for Emerging Infectious Diseases, a biennial scary-disease nerdgasm that is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
...On Monday?s agenda, among other intriguing talks: Two updates on MRSA, methicillin-resistant S. aureus, among farmers in two states...
...No one can say at this point how big it might get in the United States, in part because few teams other than Smith?s are looking for it. But it?s important to keep track because, in the back-and-forth arguments over the influence of agricultural antibiotic use on resistance, LA-MRSA represents something unusual: an organism whose resistance to tetracycline indicates farm-drug exposure...
...There were two presentations at ICEID Monday on LA-MRSA, which also goes by the designation ST398 for the result it usually returns in the molecular test MLST, multi-locus sequence typing. Both presentations demonstrate how perplexing the bug continues to be...