MRSA Notes

From Reuters:

Dr. Matthew J. Kuehnert and colleagues assessed Staph aureus nasal carriage in 9,622 participants in the 2001-2002 National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey. They found that 32.4 percent were colonized with the bacteria, and 0.8 percent harbored MRSA.

This translates into weighted population estimates of 89.4 million Americans colonized with S. aureus and 2.3 million carriers of MRSA, the team reports in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

“In light of the increasing frequency of community-acquired MRSA infection, new antimicrobials are needed,” write the authors of a related editorial.

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