Just received an email from Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases saying that my recent article, The Emergence of Staphylococcus aureus ST398, will be available for free online for the next two weeks. It was submitted roughly a year ago so it's already a bit dated in this quick-moving field, but provides an overview of "livestock-associated" MRSA up to mid-2010 or so--including food-associated MRSA.
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I've been working on livestock-associated Staphylococcus aureus and farming now for almost a decade. In that time, work from my lab has shown that, first, the "livestock-associated" strain of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) that was found originally in Europe and then in Canada, ST398, is in…
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The emerging MRSA strain ST398 has found a new home--chickens.
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I can send it along if you like--just drop me an email.
Hello Dr.,Can you send me the article please as soon as possible,as i need to read it .
I am writing a research paper for my bachelors and would like to read your article. I chose MRSA because my son has been battling with this for years...