Superbugs on the rise in Canadian hospitals
Saturday, November 8, 2008 - 13:00
in Health & Medicine
Although infection control has been substantially ramped up in Canadian hospitals since the SARS crisis of 2003, the number of resistant bacterial infections post-SARS have multiplied even faster, a new Queen's University study shows. Led by Queen's epidemiologist Dr Dick Zoutman, the national survey is a six-year follow-up to a study that was undertaken in 1999, prior to the outbreak of SARS...
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