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MRSA Identified in U.S. Wastewater Treatment Plants
November 6th 2012A team led by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Public Health has found that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is prevalent at several U.S. wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). MRSA is well known for causing difficult-to-treat and potentially fatal bacterial infections in hospital patients, but since the late 1990s it has also been infecting otherwise healthy people in community settings.
