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Interesting. I didn't know about Community-acquired MRSA. From some googling, it sounds like its spread is currently still limited to at-risk communities (athle
by jakobegger 10y ago
Interesting. I didn't know about Community-acquired MRSA. From some googling, it sounds like its spread is currently still limited to at-risk communities (athletes that share equipment, kids in daycare).
There still has to be a substantial selective cost, otherwise the resistant strain would quickly spread through the whole population, right?
- Fomite 10y agoWe honestly don't have a great handle on it's prevalence. It would only spread quickly through the population of there was also a lot of selective pressure from antibiotics in the community. There's definitely some selective cost to multi-drug resistance, but it's proving to not be nearly as big a hurdle as conventional wisdom suggested it would be.