Science news articles about 'community acquired mrsa'

... anticipated seeing a rise in office visits for abscesses due to the emergence of community-acquired MRSA, but we were somewhat surprised by the rapid changes in antibiotic prescribing," Hersh said. " ...

... recent years, there have been increasing reports of community-acquired MRSA infections in children." Iman Naseri, ... percent (4,534) were resistant to methicillin. MRSA rates increased from 11.8 percent ...

... article. "Thus, in the last decade, community-acquired MRSA strains have caused hospital outbreaks ... French hospitals who in 2003 and 2004 were screened for MRSA before discharge to home health care. ...