PRO/AH/EDR> Staph. aureus (MRSA) – Australia: porcine, 1st report

MRSA — Worldwide/Unknown
The 1st evidence of the livestock-associated antibiotic resistant “golden staph” [_Staphylococcus aureus_] has been detected in Australian pigs, a national group of researchers warns.
Well-established in many European countries, Canada and Singapore, livestock-associated methicillin-resistant _Staphylococcus aureus_ (LA-MRSA) had not been reported in food-producing animals in Australia until nasal swabs from 324 pigs from herds around the country were collected by the group.
Researchers