Infection Control Today magazine reports that researchers at the University of Maryland School of Public Health have found the infectious bacterium methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) at wastewater treatment plants in the U.S.
“MRSA is well known for causing difficult-to-treat and potentially fatal bacterial infections in hospital patients, but since the late 1990s it has also been infecting otherwise healthy people in community settings,” the magazine reported.
Amy R. Sapkota, assistant professor in the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health and research study leader, told the magazine, “MRSA infections acquired outside of hospital settings are on the rise and can be just as
