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Committee on Microbiology - News
Summer 2007
Glen Randall named an American Liver
Foundation Hepatitis C Scholar and awarded the Schweppe Foundation's
Career Development Award
'Pandemic in the making'
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Robert Daum, Professor and Section Chief of
Infectious Diseases in Pediatrics, was quoted in a Tuesday,
May 29 Chicago Tribune article
that reported on a serious illness called MRSA, which stands for methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus
and is a potentially virulent bacteria that is becoming a public health
challenge. Being spread mainly through contact between people in public
housing, Cook County Jail and public health facilities, such as Stroger
Hospital, MRSA is being contracted by more individuals than in past
years. "This is a pandemic in the making and the sourse of an enourmous
increased burden of disease across Chicago," said Daum. He also noted
in the interview that about 96 percent of skin and soft tissue
infectiouns currently identified in jail inmates are caused by
community-associated MRSA. |
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