The first results of nationwide surveillance suggest that invasive forms of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (which spread to blood and sterile sites such as cerebrospinal fluid) are far more prevalent than previously thought, even the CDC itself.
You’re on call: More than half of cases that were probably contracted in a healthcare setting first showed up somewhere in the world outside.
If the projections are accurate, according to an accompanying editorial in JAMA, the nationwide MRSA death rate would exceed that from HIV.
The editorial calls for practitioners in public health and private practice to “combine efforts to insure judicious antibiotic use”.
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