Report: Woman, cat shared staph bug (AP)

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Reply Wed 12 Mar, 2008 07:15 pm
Report: Woman, cat shared staph bug
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AP - People struggling to get rid of recurrent staph infections might want to consider an often-overlooked source: the family pet. A German woman repeatedly battled the same strain of drug-resistant superbug MRSA until her cat was tested and treated. It's one of the few documented cases of transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus between a person and a cat.

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