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StaphAseptic™ News
Rare Staph Infection Shows Up in Philadelphia
April 9, 2010
Fox News
We've all heard of MRSA, but what about VRSA?
It stands for vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, which is a rare staph infection. So far, only a handful of cases have cropped up across the country, with the latest one involving a patient at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia.
The patient, who is on kidney dialysis, was transferred from Delaware and did not catch the infection at the University of Pennsylvania-owned hospital, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
As the name implies, VRSA is resistant to the antibiotic, vancomycin, which is commonly used to keep patients with weak or no kidney function from getting bacterial infections.
"The infection is not particularly virulent and is susceptible to existing antibiotics," Neil Fishman, an infectious-disease expert at Penn told the newspaper. "VRSA has never been transmitted from one person to another."
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