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 in Copenhagen, Denmark 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.
Between June 2019 and September 2022, experts used nasal and rectal swabs from 2,891 patients hospitalized at the Charité University Hospital Berlin — 1,184 patients with previous colonization and 1,707 newly admitted patients as the control group — as well as swabs from dogs and cats that lived in patients’ homes.
Scientists used genetic sequencing to identify the species of bacteria in the swab samples and the presence of drug-resistance genes. They used whole genome sequencing to confirm the potential sharing of drug-resistant germs.
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