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MRSA Pneumonia : Causes

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Hospital-acquired pneumonia
In addition, the types of germs present in a hospital are often more dangerous than those encountered in the community.Hospital-acquired pneumonia occurs more often in patients who require a respirator(also called a breathing machine or ventilator...
Source:ADAM
Date:March 17, 2009

Specific Causes Articles

MRSA
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus(MRSA) is a bacterial infection that is highly resistant to some antibiotics.Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Community-acquired MRSA(CA-MRSA); Hospital-acquired MRSA(HA-MRSA).MRSA is caused b...
Source:ADAM
Date:September 28, 2008
Ask The Doctor: Boils
Are boils contagious? Serena Koenig, M.D., M.P.H, is an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. She serves on the faculties of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities and Infectious Disease in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She divides her clinical time between a clinic in Haiti and the infectious disease and internal medicine services at Brigham and Women's Hospital. With grants from the NIH, she also conducts operational research on the most effective strategies to treat HIV and tuberculosis in Haiti using decision modeling techniques.
Source:StayWell
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