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CDC en Español - comunicado de prensa
Centers for Disease Control — Contacto: División de Relaciones con los Medios de Comunicación de los CDC El estudio encontró que aproximadamente el 85 por ciento de todas las infecciones invasivas por SARM se habían originado en entornos médicos y dos tercios de las mismas se ...More…
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CDC en Español / Especiales CDC / SARM
Centers for Disease Control — El SARM (o MRSA, por sus siglas en inglés) causó en 2005 más de 94,000 infecciones potencialmente mortales y casi 19,000 muertes en los Estados Unidos; la mayoría de estas muertes estuvieron vinculadas a entornos médicos. Estas cifras fueron ...More…
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MRSA Screening: The Test
Lab Tests Online — Describes when MRSA screening tests are ordered, how MRSA screening tests are used, and what the results of an MRSA test might mean A MRSA screen is a test that looks solely for the presence of MRSA and no other pathogens. It is primarily used to ...More…
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About MRSA Skin Infections:
Centers for Disease Control — The goal of the National MRSA Education Initiative is to help Americans better recongnize and prevent MRSA skin infections. Sharing personal items, such as towels or razors, that have touched infected skin Touching surfaces or items, such as used ...More…
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CDC Statement on MRSA in Men Who Have Sex with Men
Centers for Disease Control — MRSA is a common cause of skin infections throughout the United States. These infections occur in men, women, adults, children, and persons of all races and sexual orientations, and are known to be transmitted by close skin-to-skin contact. In ...More…
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Should I Worry About MRSA?
Kids Health — MRSA is a type of bacteria that the usual antibiotics can't tackle anymore. The good news is that there are some simple ways to protect yourself from being infected. Find out how. You've probably heard about MRSA skin infections. The good news is ...More…
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Universal Surveillance for Methicillin-Resistant ...
Annals of Internal Medicine — The summary below is from the full report titled "Universal Surveillance for Methicillin- Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in 3 Affiliated Hospitals." It is in the 18 March 2008 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine (volume 148, pages 409-418). ...More…
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Studies Highlight MRSA Evolution and Resilience
National Institutes of Health — The study, from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of NIH, resolves debate about the molecular evolution of CA-MRSA in the United States. The findings rule out the previously held possibility that multiple strains ...More…
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MRSA Proves a Stubborn Opponent in Labs and Locker Rooms
National Institute of Allergy — In the fall of 2004, football coach Rocky Rawls led his high school team through practices in rural Bronte, Texas. At about the same time, in a Montana laboratory some 1,500 miles away, immunologist Frank DeLeo, Ph.D., and bacteriologist Michael ...More…
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Study establishes baseline for MRSA infection estimates
Centers for Disease Control — CDC Presents First State-by-State Data on Work Limitations Caused by Arthritis Methicillin-resistant staph aureus (MRSA) caused more than 94,000 life-threatening infections and nearly 19,000 deaths in the United States in 2005, most of them ...More…
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MRSA OR (Methicillin Resistance Staphylococcus Aureus)
Clinical Trials — Open Studies / MRSA OR (Methicillin Resistance Staphylococcus Aureus) Efficacy Study of Altabax to Clear Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) Nasal Colonization Study Evaluating Tigecycline Versus Clindamycin on Complicated Skin and ...More…