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COPYRIGHT 2004 International Medical News Group
BOSTON -- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is rearing its ugly head outside of the hospital, causing record numbers of skin infections in children, necrotizing fasciitis in otherwise healthy adults, and severe pneumonia among some flu sufferers with no known factors that would put them at risk for the infection, three studies have shown.
Until recently, infections caused by methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) were highly unusual in healthy people outside of the hospital. The new data exacerbate already growing concerns that increases in MRSA-related infections might contribute to the evolution of additional drug-resistant mutations for which "there simply are not enough new drugs in the pharmaceutical pipeline to keep pace," Joseph R. Dalovisio, M.D., president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, said at the organization's annual meeting.
"S. aureus is a bad bug...
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