After reports that a dangerous drug-resistant bacterium, carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, or CRKP, had spread to at least 356 patients in Southern California last year, Times staff writer Molly Hennessy-Fiske spoke with Dr. Kavita Trivedi, medical epidemiologist with the California Department of Public Health's Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Initiative, about what can be done to reduce the spread of such drug-resistant "superbugs."
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-infection-20110329,0,2329300.story
Article courtesy of The Los Angeles Times-Greenspace by Molly Hennessy-Fiske
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