MRSA may accompany hospital patients into home health settings

Monday, August 10, 2009 - 15:56 in Health & Medicine

Infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) appears relatively common among patients discharged from the hospital into home health care, according to a report in the August 10/24 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. In addition, about one-fifth of infected patients may transmit the organism to other people in their households.

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