People and their pets may be able to transmit drug-resistant “superbugs” to each other, new research suggests.
The research — which will be presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Copenhagen on April 15 — noted that cross-transmission cases are rare and it’s still unclear if pets are giving germs to people or the other way around.
“Our findings verify that the sharing of multidrug-resistant organisms between companion animals and their owners is possible,” lead researcher Dr. Carolin Hackmann said in a release. “However, we identified only a handful cases suggesting that neither cat nor dog ownership is an important risk factor for multidrug-resistant organism colonization in hospital patients.”
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