Drug Resistant Bacteria More Common
Posted on August 17, 2006 Comments (3)
Drug-resistant germs more common in USA by Anita Manning:
Researchers at UCLA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, accounted for 59% of skin infections overall, from 15% at a hospital in New York to 74% at one in Kansas City, Mo.
The finding suggests that doctors should consider drug resistance as a factor when diagnosing and treating skin infections, says Rachel Gorwitz of the CDC, a co-author of a study in today’s New England Journal of Medicine.
This is another sign of the increasing health threat posed by drug resistant bacteria. The problem of drug resistant bacteria is made much worse by the improper use of anti-biotics.
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October 31st, 2006 @ 10:29 pm
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