Prabhupada, April 14, 1975, Hyderabad: They have discovered this streptomycin, for tuberculosis, that if one takes too many injections of streptomycin, then it does not act.
Devotee: He becomes immune.
Prabhupada: Yes.
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Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria Widespread in US Meat and Poultry
By Free From Harm | Make Your Food Choices Matter | Categories: Food Safety
New research conducted by Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGRI) finds high levels of bacteria known to be resistant to multiple antibiotics in 136 samples derived from 26 US grocery stores in a 5 states. Recently Scientific American reported that about 70% or more of all antibiotics are administered to farm animals raised in intensely confined conditions on factory farms which are incubators of disease.
Lead researcher on the project, Dr. Lance Price, told Reuters that “The bacteria is always going to be there. But the reason why they’re resistant is directly related to antibiotic use in food animal production. Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest threats to public health we face today.”
The report was published in the journal Clinical Infectious Disease, a publication of Infectious Diseases Society of America
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Antimicrobials are used extensively in food animal production, where they are often applied subtherapeutically for growth promotion and routine disease prevention [1]. Surveys conducted by the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) indicate that retail meat and poultry products are frequently contaminated with multidrug-resistant Campylobacter species,Salmonella species, Enterococcus species, and Escherichia coli [2]; but little is known about the prevalence of other antibiotic-resistant pathogens in the US food supply.
Staphylococcus aureus is among the most prevalent causes of clinical infections globally and has garnered substantial public attention due to increasing mortality associated with multidrug resistance. A new multidrug-resistant S. aureus strain, ST398, has emerged that predominantly colonizes people working in food animal production. First discovered in 2003, ST398 now makes up a substantial proportion of the community-acquired methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) cases in the Netherlands [3]. Multiple studies have demonstrated the high prevalence of multidrug-resistant S. aureus, including ST398, among intensively raised swine in the European Union, Canada, and the United States [4, 5], but few studies have been conducted to measure its prevalence in US food products [6].
In the current study, we evaluated the prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility profiles of S. aureus in retail meat and poultry samples from 5 US cities. We found that S. aureus contamination was common among the samples and that distinct S. aureus populations were associated with each meat and poultry type. We further demonstrated the prevalence of multidrug resistance, including resistance to clinically important antibiotics such as ciprofloxacin, quinupristin/dalfopristin, clindamycin, erythromycin, oxacillin, and daptomycin.
Source: Free From Harm
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