Tags: Bacteria.

ST8:USA300 is a strain ofcommunity-associated MRSA that has emerged as a particularly antibiotic resistant epidemic that is responsible for rapidly progressive fatal diseases including necrotizing pneumonia severe sepsis and necrotizing fasciitis. The epidemiology of infections caused by MRSA is rapidly changing: in the past 10 years infections caused by this organism have emerged in the community.

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