MARCH 21, 2023

Pets and Owners Sharing More Than Companionship

By IDSE News Staff

Pets provide many benefits from companionship and protection to emotional well-being, but they also might be passing multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) to their owners. Likewise, people could be transmitting these dangerous microbes to their pets, according to new research being presented at the 2023 European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Copenhagen, Denmark, in April (presentation 4128).

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