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Universal Surveillance for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in 3 Affiliated Hospitals
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What is the problem and what is known about it so far?
Patients in the hospital sometimes get infections from other hospitalized patients. These hospital-acquired infections can be very serious because hospitalized patients often have reduced resistance to infection. Bacterial infections due to Staphylococcus aureus are particularly serious because standard antibiotics are sometimes not effective …
