Sunday, April 17, 2011

Multi-drug resistant staph in 1 of 4 supermarket meat samples

Much of the contentious debate over the abuse of antibiotics in farming boils down to a couple of simple questions: whether resistant organisms that arise on farms because of antibiotic use leave the farm, and whether, once they do, they reach human beings.

A piece of research (PDF) released Friday morning in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases helps answer both those questions.

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Marisa Coughlan Shanna Moakler Portia de Rossi Jolene Blalock Nichole Robinson

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