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Evidence Suggests Livestock-Associated MRSA Not Widespread in U.S. Swine Industry

2014-11-03 19:07:00| National Hog Farmer

By Peter Davies, Jisun Sun, My Yang, University of Minnesota Staphylococcus aureus are versatile bacteria that can survive and multiply in many environments. Methicillin resistant S. aureus (MRSA) have been a growing problem in human medicine for 50 years, and one of the so called superbugs due to frequent resistance to (often many) antibiotics. read more

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