Hospitals taking care to avoid infections
By Debra Pressey
Sunday July 1, 2007
John Dixon
Dr. James Ellis, chairman of emergency medicine at Provena Covenant Medical Center, holds a culture swab used to detect methicillin-resistent staph bacteria in the emergency room.
Wonder what your chances are of picking up that antibiotic-resistant superbug you've been hearing so much about lately?
Or – since it can be carried without symptoms – if you already have it?
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