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Posted Sat Feb 27 2010: from New York Times:
Rising Threat of Infections Unfazed by Antibiotics http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1267284959
 ...Acinetobacter baumannii...is one of a category of bacteria that by some estimates are already killing tens of thousands of hospital patients each year. While the organisms do not receive as much attention as the one known as MRSA -- for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus -- some infectious-disease specialists say they could emerge as a bigger threat..."In many respects it's far worse than MRSA," said Dr. Louis B. Rice, an infectious-disease specialist at the Louis Stokes Cleveland V.A. Medical Center and at Case Western Reserve University.
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