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MRSA Infections
MRSA, Antibiotic Resistant Staph 'Superbug' Plaguing Schools
Oct 19, 2007 | Parker Waichman Alonso LLP
MRSA, short for methicillin-resistant Staphlococcus aureas, has been ravaging schools across the country this year. The drug resistant...
7 children are infected by bacterium at L.A. hospital
Dec 16, 2006 | Los Angeles Times
White Memorial Medical Center near downtown Los Angeles has closed its neonatal and pediatric intensive care units to new admissions after seven...
C. difficile outbreak linked to nine hospital deaths
Oct 29, 2006 | Montreal Gazette
Public health authorities have yet to contain an outbreak of C. difficile-related diarrhea in a St. Hyacinthe hospital that has been linked to the...
Staph Infection Warning Issued by Metro Health
Aug 23, 2006 | ww.woai.com
A staph infection is spreading in San Antonio and the Metropolitan Health Department wants parents to be on the lookout for it, especially since kids...
VU doctors say skin infections going misdiagnosed
Aug 23, 2006 | www.nashvillecitypaper.com
Two local physicians are warning that 60 percent of people entering both the Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Monroe Carell Jr....
Community-based, resistant staph infections on the rise
Aug 20, 2006 | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
More than half of patients arriving at emergency rooms with skin lesions have drug-resistant staph infections, and doctors aren't necessarily...
Study Finds MRSA Most Common Cause Of Skin Infections In Patients Presenting In Nation's ER's
Aug 19, 2006 | www.medicalnewstoday.com
Think that's a spider bite on your arm? Think again. It could be methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, a type of staph infection...
Patients Ill With 'Superbug' Often Given the Wrong Drugs
Aug 17, 2006 | Daily News Central
The drug-resistant "superbug" formally known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA is now the most common cause of skin...
Tough-to-treat infection now all too common
Aug 17, 2006 | AP
A once-rare drug-resistant germ now appears to cause more than half of all skin infections treated in U.S. emergency rooms, say researchers who...
MRSA Skin Infections Flooding Emergency Department
Aug 16, 2006 | www.psychiatrictimes.com
Methicillin-resistant bacteria are taking emergency room doctors back to the pre-penicillin days, when skin infections were lanced and drained. ...
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