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Experts see rise in staph infections.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 28-FEB-05 		Format: Online - approximately 1146 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Experts see rise in staph infections.(Health)(A virulent strain proves resistant to the usual course of treatment for the bacteria)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Tim Christie The Register-Guard

When Deborah Willis first noticed the angry sore on her stomach, she thought it was a spider bite, but within a few days, she said, it looked more like a bullet hole.

The first round of antibiotics prescribed by a doctor did nothing to heal the nasty-looking infection, and soon another sore appeared on her thigh. Willis is now on her third different antibiotic, and if this round doesn't work, she may be in for 14 days of intravenous antibiotics in the hospital, she said.

"I'm terrified of having to go to the hospital about this," she said.

What doctors finally suspected, and lab tests confirmed, is that Willis, a 43-year-old Eugene woman, has a virulent staph infection that has become resistant to the usual antibiotics used to treat the bacteria.

Long a problem in hospitals and nursing homes, drug-resistant staph infections are now becoming more common among the general population in Eugene and Springfield and around the country.

Hard numbers are hard to come by...

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