Serious infections rising in U.S. children: study
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Children in the United States increasingly are developing serious head and neck infections with a drug-resistant type of “superbug” bacteria called MRSA, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
They said rates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, are rising in children, and called on doctors to be more judicious in prescribing antibiotics.
“There is a nationwide increase in the prevalence of MRSA in children with head and neck infections that is alarming,” said Dr. Steven Sobol of Emory University, whose study appears in the Archives of Otalaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.
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on Jan 19th, 2009 and is filed under Children & General Health.
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