Meat with bacteria charged US

Staph bacteria contaminated nearly half of U.S. meat samples in a recent analysis, with 96 percent of the bacteria, against at least one kind of drug.

Staphylococcus aureus, which showed genetic differences and different levels of drug resistance based on the type of meat was the most common bacteria in was detected.

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During the project, scientists studied 136 samples of beef, pork, chicken and Turkey of 26 grocery stores in five cities of the United States. After examination of the samples in the laboratory, researchers found that meat contaminated staph bacteria more than three quarters of Turkey. Pork and chicken meat were behind eng contaminated with about 40 percent of the samples with staphylococci and beef with 37 percent of the samples with staph.

Tribes with more than three antibiotic resistance were most common in Turkey, followed by pork, beef and chicken, according to research. In a few specimens the team found Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, also known as MRSA, which can lead to serious infections, even on the surface of the skin.

But before your favorite meat dish avoid, consider the fact that the most harmful bacteria meat can be killed by cooking at appropriate temperatures.

On the other hand, people can be faced with drug-resistant staph by the processing of raw or raw meat. This can a problem for workers in the meat-processing industry and even not wash consumers their hands or put raw meat and other food on the same surface be.

Although the Government examines U.S. meat for drug resistant bacteria, staph is not included in the test.

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Unsure, the authors of the study are the health implications of their findings, but think, antibiotics, that healthy animals in concentrated animal feeding operations could play a role.

"Antibiotics are the most important drugs, which are to treat Staph infections;" but when staph are resistant to three, four, five, or even nine different antibiotics-as we saw in these students, only a few options leaving doctors, "said Lance price, an author of the study, in a press release."

The article was published in the journal clinical infectious diseases.

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