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Screenings for staph are now the law: state first to apply mandatory testing.
Graham J. Chicago Tribune. August 21, 2007;Metro section:1.

This article discusses a new Illinois state law that requires hospitals to screen all intensive care patients for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections and to isolate infected patients.
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