Many infections tied to medical settings

From San Francisco, at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

More than one-fourth of skin or muscle infections that require hospitalization originate from microbes acquired in a clinic, hospital, or other medical-care setting, researchers find.

Using data from 134 hospitals in the northeastern United States, scientists identified 7,329 cases of infection caused by no more than one microbe.