Mrs Pat tells me “if you dare gloat, I will kill you.”
Would I ever even think of doing something so crass and
common?
Well I might, but she is a formidable lady, totally
underestimated by Maff-Defra: Britain's disgraced and corrupt agricultural ministry,
Livestock-associated
MRSA detected in pigs in Great Britain
1.
Simon Hall1,
2.
Angela Kearns2 and
3.
Suzanne Eckford3
+Author Affiliations
1.
1Animal
and Plant Health Agency, Woodham Lane, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB
1.
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FOLLOWING
the recent report of the detection of livestock-associated meticillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) in a pig from a farm in Northern
Ireland (Hartley and others 2014), we wish to report the
isolation of LA-MRSA from piglets with skin disease from a breeder-finisher
farm, located in eastern England.
Two
10-day-old piglets with skin lesions were submitted to an APHA veterinary
investigation centre on December 30, 2014. Eleven litters were affected and, of
60 piglets with the condition, six died. Treatment had been with parenteral
amoxicillin. Both piglets submitted for investigation had been euthanased and
had multifocal skin lesions ranging from 2 mm to 20 mm in size, with an
overlying, crusting, fibrinous exudate. Gross lesions were similar to those
observed in exudative epidermitis (known as greasy pig disease). Cultures of
affected areas of skin from both piglets and of lung from one piglet yielded
profuse growths of S aureus, which
were positive for the altered penicillin-binding protein (PBP2') by …
