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November 25, 2009

Community MRSA rates rising, and epidemics converging

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A study published Tuesday in Emerging Infectious Diseases makes me happy, despite its grim import, because it confirms something that I will say in SUPERBUG: Community MRSA strains are moving into hospitals, blurring the lines between the two epidemics. The study is by researchers at the excellent Extending the Cure project of Resources for the [...]
Written by Maryn McKenna
Also posted in MRSA, USA 300, community, hospitals, surveillance
November 9, 2008

MRSA in meat in Louisiana: pig meat, human strain

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On Nov. 3, I posted on an enterprising group of TV stations in the Pacific Northwest who had retail meat in four states tested for MRSA. I said at the time that it was the first finding of MRSA in meat in the US that I knew of. Turns out that I was wrong by three [...]
Written by Maryn McKenna
Also posted in MRSA, MSSA, ST 398, USA 300, animals, colonization, community, food, nosocomial, pigs, zoonotic