Hospitals See More Antibiotic Resistant Staph Infections In Newborns
(Undated) -- The number of antibiotic-resistant staph infections in neonatal intensive care units has more than tripled in recent years. That's the finding of a study printed in the July issue of "The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal." Researchers poured over a national database on hospital-acquired infections. They pulled up data reported by NICUs from 1995 through 2004 and reached the startling conclusion. Of the approximately 44-hundred Staph infections tested for antibiotic resistance, 23-percent were methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, also known as MRSA which can be fatal. Between 1995 and 2004, the rate of MRSA infections in newborns spiraled upward by 308-percent. |