The UK’s Sunday Express takes note today of “pig MRSA” ST398 (full post archive here) in a story that is both somewhat alarmist and oddly incomplete, since it misses a piece of news that I told you about here last June.
The Express story raises the alarm over ST 398 in pigs in the Netherlands, colonizing [...]
March 21, 2009
Folks, before I get to the SHEA abstracts, one more post on ST398 in humans, and a sad and difficult story. It is the first (to my knowledge) report of ST398 spreading into a nursing home, in the January 2009 issue of Eurosurveillance Weekly.
It was very thoroughly investigated, because it took place in the Netherlands, [...]
March 21, 2009
Constant readers, I am at the annual meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, where there is a lot of news about MRSA in hospitals. I hope to post on that over the next few days.
In the meantime, though, I want to pass on several pieces of news about ST398, the “pig strain” [...]
January 27, 2009
In my excitement over the paper by Tara Smith and team on Friday, I failed to sufficiently emphasize an important new finding. (I included it in my story for ScientificAmerican.com, but it was toward the end.) I feel it deserves a post of its own, so here it is:
The Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority [...]
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