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Article: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Pakistan, 1996-2003.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
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- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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To the Editor: This letter is written in response to the article titled "Co-trimoxazole-sensitive, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Israel, 1988 1997" (1). We found the authors' findings most interesting. As the authors pointed out, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections have become a major problem worldwide. The problem is not restricted to industrialized countries. The last decade has seen an alarming increase in MRSA infections in Pakistani hospitals (2). Pakistan's Armed Forces Institute of Pathology provides laboratory services to a 1,500-bed tertiary-care hospital in Rawalpindi and is the main reference laboratory in northern ...