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joining us in the studio we have associate professor annette lofler one of our dermatologists here at

the rbc um so many thanks for um for for coming in today to have a chat to you.

And I know that a number of the things you're interested in,

but one of the things is Methodist and Staphylococcus pseudo-intermedious.

And so the thought we'd talk about that, if that's all right.

And the idea is, though, maybe you could discuss in your infinite wisdom,

what should we do if a patient that we've taken a swab for, say, an ear or a wound has MRSP?

So what does that mean to the patient? Okay. Thanks, Tom. And don't worry, listeners,

my wisdom will be finite today. There will be an end to it.

So for those of you who have seen MRSP, you'll probably be familiar that it basically comes with a huge list of resistances reported by the microbiology lab.

And for those of you who haven't seen it, you don't need to worry about missing it, because essentially it is a staphlococcus sued in the medias. So our bog standard

coagolese positive staphlococcus that colonizes most of our dogs, almost all of our dogs,

at least at some stage, and is known as an opportunistic pathogen. But the difference between our bog standard staff sued in the medias and MRSP is that

MRSP is multi-drug resistant.

I sometimes call it the little brother of MRSA, who probably most of you are familiar

with as the human hospital bug.

And many owners are familiar with MRSA many owners work in a

hospital with MRSA or have worked the numbers of MRSA in human hospitals in the

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