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Final report from ICAAC-IDSA 08 (news from ICAAC, 3)

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The ICAAC-IDSA (48th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy and 46th annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America) meeting ended a week ago, and I’m still thrashing my way through the thousands of abstracts. Here’s my final, highly unscientific selection of papers that caught my eye: * Evidence that the community-strain clone USA300 is [...]

7-fold increase CA-MRSA in parts of Chicago

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Via the Archives of Internal Medicine, a new study from Cook County Hospital and Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Betwen 2000 and 2005, the incidence of CA-MRSA at the hospital and its neighborhood clinics increased 6.84 times. Notably, meth-sensitive staph (MSSA) did not decrease – this was a true addition, not a substitution of [...]