NYT/AP:Study Finds Spread of Resistant Staph(outside health-care settings)

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Study Finds Spread of Resistant Staph
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: April 7, 2005


Dangerous drug-resistant staphylococcus infections are showing up at an alarming rate outside hospitals and nursing homes in the United States, researchers are reporting today.

Until recently, these hard-to-treat cases were seen only in hospitals and other health-care settings, where they can spread to patients with open wounds or tubes and cause serious complications. Now doctors are seeing resistant strains among inmates, children and athletes.

In a study of patients in Baltimore, the Atlanta area and Minnesota, researchers at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found 17 percent of the drug-resistant staph infections had no apparent links to health-care settings....

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The findings were published in The New England Journal of Medicine.


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/07/health/07infect.html