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Health: New guidance coming on group MRSA infections
By Laura Marcus,
Nursery World,
24 January 2008
The Health Protection Agency is to produce updated guidance on a strain of community-acquired MRSA (C-MRSA) that is more likely to occur in places like nurseries and schools.
The original interim guidance on the management of the Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) Staphylococcus aureus (SA) infection was produced by the HPA in 2006. It aimed to provide healthcare professionals with easily accessible advice to assist the recognition, investigation and management of PVL SA cases. The update will be published in March. PVL SA is a strain of C-MRSA that can cause soft-tissue infections, leading to boils and abscesses on the skin, and, more rarely, pneumonias and bloodstream infections....
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