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Article: Skin infections from community MRSA rising.(Infectious Diseases)(methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)
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- Internal Medicine News
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- September 1, 2008
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus--almost unheard of 10 years ago--has become the single biggest cause of skin infections in the United States, Dr. Greg Moran said at the 12th International Conference on Emergency Medicine.
"We really don't know what's begun this sudden explosion of resistant staph in the community all over the United States, as well as in Canada and Europe," said Dr. Moran, an emergency physician at the Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, Calif. "One thing we do know is that this is not a phenomenon of the hospital strains moving into the community. These are genetically distinct strains."
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