A study of 136 meat and poultry samples from 80 brands across 26 US grocery stores found 47% carried antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and more than half of those bacteria resisted at least three classes of antibiotics.
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Drug resistant Staph found in one in four meat samples
Lance Price's team tested 136 meat samples covering 80 brands from 26 stores in five cities and found 47% carried Staphylococcus aureus; of those, 52% resisted at least three classes of antibiotics. The work appeared in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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