Reducing Antibiotic Use Will Not Stop MRSA
NETHERLANDS - The methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacterium, which is resistant to antibiotics, has spread rapidly in the past few years on pig farms. Extensive use of antibiotics is thought to help it spread but reducing the use of antibiotics is not enough to eliminate MRSA on pig farms, says Els Broens in her doctoral thesis from Wageningen University.
7 November 2011
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