Pet store puppies are the likely source of drug-resistant infection that strikes 1.5 million people each year.
Six people were infected after contact with puppies were reported to the Florida Department of Health in 2017, causing the CDC and other state health departments to study the drug-resistant strains. .One of the things that really caught our attention is when we realized that these isolates from these puppies were related to isolates from human patients in Ohio…the strain of bacteria that they were carrying was the same,” Louise K.
The study, she says, “highlights an important gap in our surveillance systems for companion animals, including dogs and cats.
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