{"id":3507,"date":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/export.maxmaziy.php.nixsolutions.com\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","slug":"farmers-and-pigs-both-colonized-with-staphylococcus-in-southwestern-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/farmers-and-pigs-both-colonized-with-staphylococcus-in-southwestern-ontario\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers and pigs both colonized with Staphylococcus in southwestern Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a four-month study ending in January 2007, researchers<br \/>\ncollected nasal and rectal swabs from 285 pigs of three<br \/>\ndifferent age groups from 20 different farms. Nasal swabs<br \/>\nwere collected from farm personnel and a brief questionnaire<br \/>\nwas also administered. Nine out of 20 farms studied, or 45 per cent, were positive<br \/>\nfor MRSA. Prevalence in pigs was 24.9 per cent with no<br \/>\ndifference in colonization between age groups. Twenty per<br \/>\ncent of pig farmers tested positive for MRSA and researchers<br \/>\nfound a correlation between the presence of MRSA in pigs<br \/>\nand humans on farms.  The study\u2019s senior author, Dr. Scott Weese of the<br \/>\nDepartment of Pathobiology, Ontario Veterinary College,<br \/>\nUniversity of Guelph, says that the study left researchers<br \/>\nwith a number of unanswered questions. \u201cWe need to find<br \/>\nout how broad this is,\u201d Weese says. \u201cWe need to find out<br \/>\nhow representative southern Ontario is compared to the<br \/>\nrest of North America.\u201d One of the interesting findings in Weese\u2019s study is that<br \/>\none of the farms with the highest rate of MRSA was an<br \/>\nantibiotic-free farm. \u201cI think it\u2019s overly simplistic to say that antibiotic use in pigs is the sole reason this has emerged.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s gotta be something else going on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a four-month study ending in January 2007, researchers collected nasal and rectal swabs from 285 pigs of three different age groups from 20 different farms. Nasal swabs were collected from farm personnel and a brief questionnaire was also administered. Nine out of 20 farms studied, or 45 per cent, were positive for MRSA. Prevalence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[931],"tags":[14502,8882,3694,10033,60,562,20007,26132,9053,27247,14,33,16262,1240,18606,14980,20912,6698,20911,1579,6053],"class_list":["post-3507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prairie-swine-centre","tag-5-pigs","tag-al","tag-antibiotic","tag-arc","tag-disease","tag-farms","tag-gh","tag-jan","tag-leg","tag-list","tag-pig","tag-pigs","tag-pl","tag-research","tag-scott","tag-search","tag-some","tag-staphylococcus","tag-t","tag-test","tag-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}