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StaphAseptic™ News
Kids with MRSA infections are spreading
June 29, 2010
The biggest problem health providers see is reoccurring staph skin infections.
There has been a ten-fold increase in children hospitalized by drug resistant staph infections, known as MRSA. MRSA stands for methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus.
In local emergency rooms, kids outnumber the adults with these types of skin infections.
The children affected are in healthy condition without the typical risk factors such as playing sports. The children are also not picking up this bacteria in a health care setting.
Researchers found that among children, infections involving methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, better known as MRSA, jumped from two to 21 cases per 1,000 hospital admissions between 1999 and 2008, according to a study in the journal Pediatrics.
To read the article discussing this study, visit Phillyburbs.com
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