'Superbug' scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising human toll.

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'Superbug' scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising human toll.

September 21, 2016

McNeill R, Nelson DJ, Abutaleb Y. Reuters Investigation. September 7, 2016.

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Antimicrobial resistance is a pervasive threat to patient safety. This news article discusses incidents involving methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection to spotlight the need for health care to develop system-level approaches to measuring the problem and enforce regulations designed to prevent health care–associated infections. A PSNet perspective described one nurse's experience with MRSA as a patient.

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