Pets could be passing E.coli to their owners: study
These superbugs can resist multiple antibiotics including penicillin and cephalosporins.
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These superbugs can resist multiple antibiotics including penicillin and cephalosporins.
Multidrug-resistant organisms are bacteria that resist treatment with more than one antibiotic.
Swabs collected from hospitalised people found microbes shared with pets at home showing same antibiotic resistance
New research found that multidrug-resistant organisms could be passed on to hospitalised owners from even their healthy pets, and vice-versa, The Guardian reported. The research is to be presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases in Copenhagen, Denmark. Dr Carolin Hackmann, from Charité University Hospital Berlin, Germany, and colleagues conducted the study of over 2,800 hospitalised patients and their companion animals.
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