Community-acquired MRSA becoming more common in pediatric ICU patients
Friday, March 26, 2010 - 10:00
in Health & Medicine
Once considered a hospital anomaly, community-acquired infections with drug-resistant strains of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus now turn up regularly among children hospitalized in the intensive-care unit, according to research from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.
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