US Meat and Poultry Is Widely Contaminated With Drug-Resistant Staph Bacteria

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110415083153.htm

ScienceDaily (Apr. 15, 2011) — Drug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus, a bacteria linked to a wide range of human diseases, are present in meat and poultry from U.S. grocery stores at unexpectedly high rates, according to a nationwide study by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).

Nearly half of the meat and poultry samples -- 47 percent -- were contaminated with S. aureus, and more than half of those bacteria -- 52 percent -- were resistant to at least three classes of antibiotics, according to the study published April 15 in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.

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