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• Dangerous drug-resistant staphylococcus infections are showing up at an alarming rate outside hospitals and nursing homes in the United States, researchers are reporting today.
• Until recently, these hard-to-treat cases were seen only in hospitals and other health-care settings, where they can spread to patients with open wounds or tubes and cause serious complications.
• Now doctors are seeing resistant strains among inmates, children and athletes.
• In a study of patients in Baltimore, the Atlanta area and Minnesota, researchers at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found 17 percent of the drug-resistant staph infections had no apparent links to health-care settings.
• ''Close to one-fifth of what used to be a hospital-specific problem is now a community problem.
• And that's a large number,'' said Dr. Scott K. Fridkin, an epidemiologist at the centers.
• ''We didn't think it would be anywhere near that high when we started the study.''
• The findings were published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

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