February 17th, 2010
More from Katie Couric on Antibiotic Broadcast
Yesterday, CBS News’ Katie Couric had former FDA Commissioner Dr. David Kessler and “Fast Food Nation” author Eric Schlosser on @katiecouric to discuss further last week’s two-part series on the overuse of antibiotics in industrial farm animal production. “There are real risks here, using drugs in a non-therapuetic context,” Dr. David Kessler said. “This industry has a record of viciously going after anyone who criticizes their practices,” Schlosser told Couric, recalling the industry suit against talk show host Oprah Winfrey.
By Chris.Filed under: Agriculture, Environment, Food Production, Industrial Food Animal Production, Public Health.
February 17th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
IN regards to the Industry hype about that mean old Katie Couric and CBS on the Danish Study on antibiotics and the overuse there of, or not, I wish to submit the following ;
>>>We identified a clone of S. aureus previously associated with outbreaks of infections in animals and in humans who work with animals in 2 unique collections of S. aureus isolates. The first was from a population-based study of S. aureus colonization among residents of northern Manhattan in New York, NY, USA; <<>>Consequently, the clone is identified by multilocus sequence typing as sequence type 398 (ST398). <<<
MRSA ST398 HUMANS
From Emerging Infectious Diseases Staphylococcus aureus ST398, New York City and Dominican Republic
http://www.cdc.gov/eid/content/15/2/pdfs/08-0609.pdf
First human isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus sequence type 398 in Spain
C. Potel & M. Álvarez-Fernández & L. Constenla & P. Álvarez & S. Perez Received: 31 July 2009 / Accepted: 13 December 2009 # Springer-Verlag 2010
http://www.springerlink.com/content/p8866u775tvm51w5/fulltext.pdf?page=1
Eurosurveillance, Volume 13, Issue 9, 28 February 2008
Rapid communications
First outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 in a Dutch hospital, June 2007
http://www.eurosurveillance.org/images/dynamic/EE/V13N09/art8051.pdf
EDITORIAL
MRSA in livestock animals-an epidemic waiting to happen?
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119414762/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 May; 15(5): 845-847. doi: 10.3201/eid1505.081417. PMCID: PMC2687035
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Community-acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 Infection, Italy
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687035/
Volume 15, Number 7-July 2009 Dispatch Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 in Swine Farm Personnel, Belgium
Abstract We assessed methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in persons on 49 swine farms in Belgium. Surveys showed that 48 (37.8%) persons carried MRSA ST398 and 1 (0.8%) had concurrent skin infection. Risk factors for carriage were MRSA carriage by pigs, regular contact with pigs and companion animals, and use of protective clothing.
http://www.cdc.gov/EID/content/15/7/1098.htm
doi:10.1016/j.vetmic.2009.12.044 | How to Cite or Link Using DOI Copyright © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Permissions & Reprints
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) ST398 associated with clinical and subclinical mastitis in Belgian cows
http://www.sciencedirect.com/
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Denmark’s Case for Antibiotic-Free Animals NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2010
http://staphmrsa.blogspot.com/2010/02/denmarks-case-for-antibiotic-free.html
please see full text below ;
http://staphmrsa.blogspot.com/
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