Tracking MRSA evolution and transmission
Friday, January 22, 2010 - 11:21
in Health & Medicine
For the first time, researchers have shown how transmission of MRSA from one person to another can be precisely tracked in a hospital setting. The team have developed a remarkable new method that can 'zoom' from large-scale inter-continental transmission events to the much finer detail of person-to-person infection of MRSA within a single hospital...