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Maryn McKenna is a well known author (see Beating Back The Devil), award winning journalist, and blogger who has spent much of the past year researching her new – soon to be published – book SUPERBUG: The Rise of Drug-Resistant Staph and the Danger of a World Without Antibiotics.
To that end Maryn has maintained an excellent blog on MRSA and antibiotic resistant pathogens called SUPERBUG which serves as a sort of virtual whiteboard for her new book.
Maryn has recently returned from the annual meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), and she has posted a number of links to online abstracts from that meeting.
As Maryn explains it, many of these links are probably only going to be `live’ for a short time. Get them while you can.
MRSA research at Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of American meeting
As promised, a round-up of some of the research presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), held last weekend in San Diego. (Disclosure: I was on the faculty for the meeting; in exchange for co-hosting a session, SHEA will be reimbursing me for airfare and hotel. I wasn't otherwise paid, though.) There were 143 presentations on MRSA; here are a few.
I'm going to put in links to the online abstracts — I have SHEA's permission to do this — but I can't guarantee how long they will stay up. For those outside the science world, what happens at these meetings is that research is presented, in slide/PowerPoint sessions or in a poster, as a preliminary step to getting it published in a journal. Once a journal expresses interest, a cone of silence descends, the researchers are asked not to discuss the research until the paper is printed, and the abstract will probably be taken offline.
