The findings challenge the widely held belief that humans are the main carriers of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in the community.
It's one of the biggest threats facing humanity: antibiotic-resistant bacteria. And now new research has shown your beloved pets could be superspreaders of it.Infections from drug-resistant bacteria kill more than 1.2 million people around the world every year, according to the University of Oxford, and this number is projected to rise to up to 10 million by 2050 if no action is taken to curb antimicrobial resistant.
'To determine whether these resistant bacteria can transfer from pets to their owners, Menezes and colleagues collected fecal and urine samples and skin swabs from dogs, cats and their owners and tested them for these so-called 'superbugs.' All of the 134 humans in the study were healthy, while their pets all had some sort of skin or urinary tract infection.
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