Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana leading research on staph infection that is now killing more people than AIDS.
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“It’s an epidemic, actually,” the scientist said in an interview from his Montana laboratory, which is doing some of the foremost research on the newly potent disease.
This week, DeLeo and his team unveil their latest findings: They have shown that the staph infections now killing more Americans than AIDS are caused by a single, new strain of the bacterium, known as USA300. They are not, as previously hypothesized, the result of many random mutations happening at the same time around the country.
By JENNIFER McKEE - IR State Bureau
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