MRSA Skin Infections Flooding Emergency Department - CME Teaching Brief� - MedPage Today
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SYLMAR, Calif., Aug. 16 -- Methicillin-resistant bacteria are taking emergency room doctors back to the pre-penicillin days, when skin infections were lanced and drained.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection has become the most common cause of skin and soft tissue infections seen in metropolitan emergency departments, and half-century-old therapeutic approaches are being revisited to combat it, according to two studies in the Aug. 17 New England Journal of Medicine.
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