laboratoryequipment: Antibiotic-Resistant Staph Traced to LivestockA strain of the potentially deadly antibiotic-resistant bacterium known as MRSA has jumped from livestock to humans, according to a new study involving two Northern Arizona Univ. researchers.Paul Keim, Regents’ professor and director of NAU’s Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, and Lance Price, NAU faculty member and director of the Center for Food Microbiology and Environmental Health at the Translational Genomics Research Institute, collaborated with scientists at 20 institutions around the world on the study published today in the online journal mBio.Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Antibiotic-Resistant-Staph-Traced-to-Livestock-022112.aspx
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Antibiotic-Resistant Staph Traced to Livestock

A strain of the potentially deadly antibiotic-resistant bacterium known as MRSA has jumped from livestock to humans, according to a new study involving two Northern Arizona Univ. researchers.

Paul Keim, Regents’ professor and director of NAU’s Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, and Lance Price, NAU faculty member and director of the Center for Food Microbiology and Environmental Health at the Translational Genomics Research Institute, collaborated with scientists at 20 institutions around the world on the study published today in the online journal mBio.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Antibiotic-Resistant-Staph-Traced-to-Livestock-022112.aspx

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