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Study: MRSA infections are increasing HOUSTON, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say an antibiotic-resistant bacteria -- methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus -- is causing muscle infections in children.
Dr. Pia Pannaraj, a post-doctoral fellow at the Baylor College of Medicine, says she and her colleagues at Texas Children's Hospital had been seeing an increasing number of MRSA muscle infection cases every month.
"I think it is important for parents to be aware that this bacterial infection can exist," she said. "They should seek care from their child's primary physician if there are symptoms of such an infection, such as a child limping or if there is redness or swelling in an extremity."
The rate of such infections is increasing nationwide.
In surveying patient records, Pannaraj and her colleagues found in 60 percent of the 45 previously healthy children with the muscle infections called myositis and pyomyositis, the cause was a form of bacteria -- either Staphylococcus aureus or Streptococcus pyogenes. The other infections were forms of staphylococcal bacteria that were not resistant to methicillin, an antibiotic.
The research is detailed in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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