A 2024 study used shotgun metagenomics to map the canine skin microbiome at species and strain level for the first time. What they found suggests that healthy skin actively defends...
Read ArticleWhen veterinary antibiotics fail against drug-resistant infections, clinicians reach for drugs designed for people. It works sometimes. But the costs to both species are higher tha...
Read ArticleMillions of clinical records. Natural language processing. A national stewardship trial across 135 clinics. And a finding that only 1.8% of dogs actually needed the antibiotics pre...
Read ArticleA landmark study of small animal dermatologists found that MRSP was more common in their noses than MRSA. The implications for infection control in veterinary practice are signific...
Read ArticleS. pseudintermedius is primarily a canine pathogen. But since 2006, a growing list of human infections tells a story that veterinary and human medicine can no longer afford to igno...
Read ArticleThe dogs I lose sleep over are not the ones with straightforward infections. They are the ones where we have tried everything, and nothing is working anymore.
Read ArticleAntibiotics take hours to days to achieve meaningful bacterial killing. Endolysins can achieve complete cell lysis in minutes. That speed difference has profound clinical and biolo...
Read ArticleBacteriophages have been perfecting bacterial killing for billions of years. The enzymes they use to do it may hold the key to treating infections that antibiotics no longer can.
Read ArticleGuidelines already recommend topical treatment as first-line for superficial skin infections in dogs. The evidence is solid. So why are we still defaulting to systemic antibiotics?
Read ArticleMost people have heard of MRSA. Far fewer know about its veterinary cousin, MRSP. It is spreading faster, it is harder to treat, and it does not stay confined to dogs.
Read ArticleNearly every dog diagnosed with a skin infection leaves the clinic with antibiotics. The data behind that statistic tells a story about habit, pressure, and a system that needs to ...
Read ArticleThe bacterium behind over 90% of canine skin infections is also a normal part of your dog’s microbiome. So what makes it turn from friend to foe?
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