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• The staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia, known among the medical fraternity as staph, are increasingly found outside hospitals and nursing homes in the United States, causing alarm about its drug-resistant nature and its potential to cause a calamity.
• The bacteria until recently were seen in hospitals and healthcare environment where the infection is usually caused through open wounds or transfusion tubes.
• Doctors have now found instances of the infection among children and athletes, who have no association with hospitals.
• Research work in Baltimore, the Atlanta area and Minnesota has given evidence that as much as 17 per cent of drug-resistant staph infections were caught in the community and did not have any apparent links to healthcare settings.
• Writing in Nee England Journal of Medicine, Dr Scptt Fridkin of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention says "close to one-fifth of what used to be a hospital-specific problem is now a community problem".
• In a subsequent study, also reported in the journal, paints grim picture.
• It said the drug-resistant strain of staph has been found to be having ''flesh-eating'' capabilities and has caused 14 cases of rare necrotizing fasciitis in the Los Angeles area.
• The staph bacteria are known to cause skin infections.
• Healthy people may carry the bacteria on their skin and in their noses.
• When infections occur, they are mostly pimples and boils, but the germ can cause serious surgical wound infections, bloodstream infections and pneumonia.
• Staph infections can be prevented by people maintaining hygiene, using antiseptic and covering wounds and cuts with bandages.
• They should also avoid sharing towels, razors and clothes.

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