A New Strain of Drug-Resistant Staph Infection Found in U.S. Pigs
Friday, January 23, 2009 - 19:14
in Health & Medicine
A strain of drug-resistant staph identified in pigs in the Netherlands five years ago, which accounts for nearly one third of all staph in humans there, has been found in the U.S. for the first time, according to a new study.Seventy percent of 209 pigs and nine of 14 workers on seven linked farms in Iowa and Illinois were found to be carrying the ST398 strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). [More]