Study Sheds Light on Previously Undetected MRSA Transmission

Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine said they have successfully applied genome sequencing to reveal what they said was the first complete picture of the spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) disease within the U.K.’s East of England region.The researchers tracked MRSA-positive people to describe transmission of the infection within and between hospitals and in general practitioner (GP) surgerie