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StaphAseptic™ News
Johns Hopkins finding more MRSA in kids
March 29, 2010
The Baltimore Sun
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Children's Center have found that more kids are coming in with community-acquired MRSA, the super bug that is often resistant to antibiotics.
The kids aren't always sick from MRSA, but are carriers who pose a threat to other patients.
The researchers have found that screening all patients as they come into the ICU and then every week is helpful in controlling the spread.
The researchers said it was once very uncommon for kids to come in with community-acquired infections with the drug-resistant strains of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureaus. But the findings, to be published in the April edition of the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, show that the Hopkins policy of screening everyone is beneficial.
This infection causes skin and soft-tissue infections, but in sick people or those with compromised immune systems, it can be deadly.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital began screening all patients in 2007 regardless of symptoms.
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