Study Shows Antibiotic Cycling Reduces Hospital MSRA Deaths
Thursday, September 4, 2008 - 11:35
in Health & Medicine
Doctors at the University of Virginia Health System have significantly reduced MRSA infections among surgical intensive care patients by using antibiotic cycling, a method of rotating drugs at regular intervals. read more
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