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Study Finds Some Hog Workers Developing Drug-Resistant Skin Infections

2016-11-18 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

New Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health-led research suggests that some workers at industrial hog production facilities are not only carrying livestock-associated, antibiotic-resistant bacteria in their noses, but may also be developing skin infections from these bacteria.

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