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REVIEW OF 1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MRSA IN ANIMALS

Reports on the 1st International Conference on MRSA in Animals.
By Jill Moss, President of The Bella Moss Foundation

I can’t really describe the feeling I had when the conference opened. Twenty research papers on clinical and epidemiological aspects of MRSA in animals were presented by some of the world’s leading veterinary experts came for two days of presentations which took place at the Leahurst campus of the University of Liverpool June 19-21st 2006.

http://www.thebellamossfoundation.com/news200607.asp

August Editorial

The Bella Moss Foundation had laid out the changes it wants to see brought in by the Government in modernising the Veterinary Surgeons Act. Modernisation is long overdue, and in suggesting that the 1966 Act is inadequate to deal with the complexities of the modern veterinary world The Foundation is not to make any criticism of the profession itself. This is a purely Governmental matter, and whilst The Foundation agree with Defra that the veterinary professional should take the lead in modernisation, we also believe that the Government should take responsibility for its own role; that of putting a new Act before Parliament.

Modernising the old Act is a complex procedure. The changes we would like to see are:

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain between Humans and a Dog

Valentine Leucocidin-Positive, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain between Humans and a Dog

E. van Duijkeren,¹

^* M. J. H. M. Wolfhagen,² M. E. O. C. Heck,³ and W. J. B. Wannet³

Bacteriology Division, Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, The Netherlands,¹ Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Isala Clinics, Zwolle, The Netherlands,² National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Diagnostic Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Perinatal Screening, Bilthoven, The Netherlands³

Received 1 July 2005/ Returned for modification 17 July 2005/ Accepted 10 September 2005