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

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.