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And in a much more complete abstract, a multi-national team led by North Dakota State University analyzed 136 nasal swabs from live animals at the university’s veterinary hospital and 150 supermarket meat samples (pork, beef, chicken) from Fargo, ND. They found S. aureus in 30 percent of the animals and 52.7 percent of the meat. There was MRSA in 8 percent of the pork samples, and it was all PVL-negative, a suggestion that it may have been ST 398, the livestock strain.
