Breaking News on Staph Aureus

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Drug-resistant germs more common in USA "...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 Gorwitz of the CDC, a co-author of a study in today's New England Journal of Medicine. The study results should "encourage doctors to obtain cultures from skin infections, which hasn't been standard practice," Gorwitz says. Doctors use cultures to grow bacteria in order to identify them..." http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-08-16-msra-germs_x.htm So when are they going to realize that these "super bugs", as they're being called on t.v., can affect more than the skin? penny