Materia Medica: VRSA re-emerges...
- Pa. hospital patient is found to have rare staph infection
A patient at Pennsylvania Hospital has been found to have the vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a rare form of staph infection possibly caused by the overuse of the antibiotic vancomycin. The VRSA case is the first reported since 2007, according to CDC data. Eleven VRSA infection cases have so far been reported nationally. The Philadelphia Inquirer (4/7)