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Thursday, June 30, 2011

Is Drug Resistance in Humans Coming From Chickens?

There’s a new paper out in the CDC’s journal Emerging Infectious Diseases that makes a provocative claim: There is enough similarity between drug-resistance genes in  E. coli carried by chickens and  E. coli infecting humans that the chickens may be the source of it.

If it is correct — and it seems plausible and is backed by past research — the claim provides another piece of evidence that antibiotic use in agriculture has a direct effect on human health.

Read More: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/06/resistance-humans-chickens/

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