A study that found the antibiotic-resistant bacteria MRSA in meat and chicken in retail stores was aimed at demonstrating that this is a national issue, not just a problem among a few grocers in Metro Detroit, the author said Thursday. In a study published online this week, Wayne State University researchers showed 2 percent of raw meat samples from Metro Detroit grocers tested positive for MRSA, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, a difficult-to-treat bacteria that can cause serious illness and sometimes death from undercooked meat. \"For stores we didn\'t include, that doesn\'t mean they are free of the contamination,\" said Yifan Zhang, an assistant professor at Wayne State University in the Department of Food and Nutrition Science and the study\'s principal investigator.

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