Meanwhile, I am tediously gathering data on MRSA surveillance and CAFOs from all 50 U.S. states so that I can demonstrate why what I want to do (a GIS-based spatial study of MRSA cases and controls and their association with industrial livestock farms) isn't feasible. And hope that I can find a doable, dissertation-sized alternative. Your paper sounds like more fun!
that's fucking awesome. I'll give you some input on what you can do to track those bitches genetically --or at least talk about as the next possible step to tracking epidemiologically.
No worries dude. Pardon me if the link is elementary for you, but it's on strain typing --I assume you'd be using DNA methods rather than restriction digest patterns or enzyme electrophoresis.
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Meanwhile, I am tediously gathering data on MRSA surveillance and CAFOs from all 50 U.S. states so that I can demonstrate why what I want to do (a GIS-based spatial study of MRSA cases and controls and their association with industrial livestock farms) isn't feasible. And hope that I can find a doable, dissertation-sized alternative. Your paper sounds like more fun!
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ok, back to my work!
today doesn't end till I'm done!
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Yeah, we're also doing strain-typing. Should be interesting!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilocus_sequence_typing
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