MRSA strain linked to high death rates

Sunday, November 1, 2009 - 03:07 in Health & Medicine

A strain of MRSA that causes bloodstream infections is five times more lethal than other strains and has shown to have some resistance to the potent antibiotic drug vancomycin used to treat MRSA, according to a Henry Ford Hospital study.

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