New studies find a rise in drug-resistant urinary tract infections in pets, raising concerns that companion animals and their close contact with humans can provide opportunities for interspecies transmission of resistant bacteria, which can contribute to the spread of potential superbugs.
Cátia Marques and Adriana Belas presented this study at the joint meeting of the American Society for Microbiology 2016 and the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy . See everything in https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fido-and-fluffy-could-unleash-drug-resistant-microbes