February 17, 2010
More from Katie Couric on Antibiotic Broadcast
Chris Stevens
Communications Director
Center for a Livable Future
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.
Posted by Terry
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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