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Re: MRSA after a c/section-scaryFrom: acmidwife@netscape.netSun Oct 28 16:16:16 2007
Any idea how many of us are colonized? Happy thought. ac mase cnm -----Original Message----- From: Raymond Stephen <stephen.raymond@dhhs.tas.gov.au> To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L <ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net> Sent: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 5:04 pm Subject: Re: MRSA after a c/section-scary Copied from the BMJ: ? Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major public health problem in the US. The incidence of invasive infections such as bacteraemia, pneumonia, and cellulitis reached 31.8 per 100 000 in 2005. ?MRSA killed more US citizens that year than HIV. Most invasive MRSA is still associated with some kind of healthcare risk factor such as surgery, previous colonisation, or an indwelling vascular catheter. In this analysis, over half the patients with healthcare associated infections became ill in the community. But many were infected with a genotype prevalent in hospitals. Patients are probably being colonised in hospital, then developing invasive infections once they get home. ? Steve CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER The information in this transmission may be confidential and/or protected by legal professional privilege, and is intended only for the person or persons to whom it is addressed. If you are not such a person, you are warned that any disclosure, copying or dissemination of the information is unauthorised. If you have received the transmission in error, please immediately contact this office by telephone, fax or email, to inform us of the error and to enable arrangements to be made for the destruction of the transmission, or its return at our cost. No liability is accepted for any unauthorised use of the information contained in this transmission. If the transmission contains advice, the advice is based on instructions in relation to, and is provided to the addressee in connection with, the matter mentioned above. Responsibility is not accepted for reliance upon it by any other person or for any other purpose.
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