Posted on 02/22/2010 3:18:37 AM PST by decimon
About forty years ago in Poland, an adventurous strain of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus made a seemingly unprecedented move, a new study shows: it crossed over from humans to chickens and settled in to stay. The disease has since spread worldwide to become the leading cause of lameness in broiler chickens.
J. Ross Fitzgerald and graduate student Bethan V. Lowder of the University of Edinburgh, along with eight colleagues, discovered the big jump and reconstructed the pathogen's diversification and pandemic spread. To do so, they compared DNA sequences from fifty-seven S. aureus samples isolated during the past half century from poultry living on four continents.
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Cross the road ping.
Nah... they’re not crossing the road. The chickens are sitting around listening to IPOD’s and playing video games. ; )
No wonder they're lame.
Poultry mrsa bump!
bump & a micro ping
Any Lame Ducks?
Speaking of I am hankerin for a Chinese Duck (in the window).
Too fatty but yummy.
The closest China town is a 6hr round trip from here. :(
Got a doc appt coming up in that town possibly
in a month so will have to hit China town.
Ping...(Thanks, neverdem!)
Thanks for the ping!
You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!
Bump.
Bump again
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