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CA-MRSA - "Superbug at our Doorstep" - CMAJ Jan 2/07

January 8, 2007, 05:42 PM

CA-MRSA - "Superbug at our Doorstep" - CMAJ Jan 2/07

This is a current article from the CMAJ on CA-MRSA (community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) -- While a great deal of attention is being given to this from the Canadian media, the threat is much wider in scope. I suspect it will only be a matter of time before US and other media picks up on this in a big way.

CMAJ. 2007 Jan 2;176(1):54-6. Related Articles, Links
Community-associated MRSA: superbug at our doorstep.
Hawkes M, Barton M, Conly J, Nicolle L, Barry C, Ford-Jones EL.
Department of Infectious Diseases, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ont.

Community-associated MRSA: Superbug at our doorstep

http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/176/1/54

While the potential for a devastating influenza pandemic has captured the imagination of the medical community and the population at large, another epidemic is currently raging in the United States and has already made inroads in Canada.[1][1] Clones of community-associated methicillin-resistant

http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/reprint/176/1/54 (PDF version)

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