Sequencing tracks animal-to-human transmission of bacterial pathogens
Monday, March 25, 2013 - 09:30
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have used whole genome sequencing to reveal if drug-resistant bacteria are transmitted from animals to humans in two disease outbreaks that occurred on different farms in Denmark. The results confirm animal-to-human transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a disease-causing bacterium that carries the recently described mecC gene.