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Drug-resistant staph common in football players

Athletes should wash their hands (and dirty gym clothes) often

football players at the line

GERMY  Players in contact sports need to wash up and clean their clothes to avoid upping their risk of acquiring a nasty bacterium.

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By Nathan Seppa

- More than 2 years ago

PHILADELPHIA — College athletes who play contact sports are at high risk of harboring and spreading Staphylococcus microbes, including the kind resistant to a first-line antibiotic, a study finds.