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One Health in Action... Methacillin-Resistant Staphylococcal aureus (MRSA) in Pets Needs Additional Biomedical Research Studies: Regarding potential “human-animal inter-species transmission”. “...The healthy pets living with humans infected with MRSA have been tested and some found to carry the MRSA which appears to be the same in both the pet and the human. …” Please see http://amcny.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/staphylococcal-infections-theyre-not-all-superbugs/ By Ann Hoenhaus, DVM, DACVIM   Dr. Ann Hohenhaus http://www.amcny.org/about-amc/veterinarians-specialists/ann-e-hohenhaus-dvm-dacvim, a prominent veterinarian certified in small animal internal medicine and oncology works at The Animal Medical Center in New York, N.Y. (USA) http://www.amcny.org/, one of the premier health care hospitals for domestic companion animals (dogs, cats etc.) in the world.  She says “it is certainly true that further studies are required to better understand the epidemiology of Methacillin-Resistant Staphylococcal aureus (MRSA) human-animal inter-species transmission, see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22102871”.   Dr. Hohenhaus is a One Health Supporter http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php (scroll down).