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CHICAGO — Aggressive, drug-resistant staph infections caught in hospitals or from medical treatment are becoming scarcer, another sign of progress in a prevention effort that has become a national public-health priority.
The decline was seen in a federal study of methicillin- resistant staph, MRSA. Researchers found that in nine metro areas, cases of MRSA fell about 16 percent between 2005 and 2008. That translates to a drop from about 32 cases per 100,000 people to 26 cases per 100,000.
The report is in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association.
