Community-acquired MRSA Is Spreading

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Thu, 04/03/2008 - 04:00

Drug resistant hospital superbugs like MRSA have been kept under control in Denmark for more than 30 years.

But the latest reports say that in the last 10 years MRSA cases have risen 10 times as new strains of bacteria with resistance genes spread through the community.


 

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