Antimicrobial resistance -- United Kingdom
A gene that enables bacteria to be highly resistant to linezolid, an antibiotic that is used as a last resort for treating infections in humans, has been found in bacterial samples from cats and a dog at a small-animal hospital in the UK for the 1st time. The new research is being presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Amsterdam, Netherlands (13-16 Apr 2019).
Linezolid is licensed for the treatment of certain bacterial
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6427456&promed&0
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