Woman’s Staph Infections Linked To Pet Cat
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(March 13, 2008)--Health officials in Germany say they were stumped by a woman's recurring staph infections until they checked the family cat.

The case is described in the New England Journal of Medicine.

A microbiologist at the Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority writes that this is one of very few documented cases of transmission of a drug-resistant superbug between a person and a cat.

The scientist says four weeks after the apparently healthy cat was treated with antibiotics, the woman was free of the bacteria and her abscesses had healed.

It's suspected that the woman originally infected the cat, and the cat may have reinfected the woman.
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