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Speakers:
Dr Mark Holmes, Senior Lecturer in Preventive Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge
Dr Laura García-Álvarez, Research Associate, Imperial College London
Dr Angela Kearns, Microbiology Services Division, Health Protection Agency
A study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases identified a new strain of MRSA with a different genetic makeup from previous strains and which was found in milk from dairy cows, raising implications for MRSA sources and detection in future.