November 16, 2008
The Seattle Times this morning launched an three-day investigative project on incidence of HA-MRSA in Washington State that is worth reading.
As readers here already know, MRSA is not a reportable disease, and there are no diagnosis codes that directly correspond to MSRA that make infection or death easily trackable through hospital records or death certificates. [...]
March 4, 2008
From the New York Times‘ business section, a good discussion today of the new technologies that have made possible rapid detection and identification of patients colonized with MRSA.
The story focuses on Cepheid, a 12-year-old California biotech that may score its first-ever profits on the basis of its MRSA rapid test, which returns results in 60-90 [...]
New newspaper series on HA-MRSA
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