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Ventilation does not spread MRSA outside pig houses
Danish researchers put ventilation to the test in an attempt to see if methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) could also spread outside pig houses.
The airborne spread of livestock-associated MRSA (LA-MRSA) through pig house ventilation hardly appears to be a source of infection for people outside the pig houses. That was the conclusion of recent Danish research, conducted by scientists from the Statens Serum Institut, the Technical University of Denmark as well as Aarhus University. The study was published in the peer-reviewed magazine
Frontiers in Veterinary Science.
MRSA bacteria when viewed through a microscope. - Photo: CDC/ Janice Haney Carr