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ICAAC/IDSA 2008 48th ICAAC/IDSA 46th Annual Meeting
Washington, DC
October 25-28, 2008

Drug-Resistant Staph and HIV - Part 2

November 4, 2008

At the 2008 joint meeting of the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) and the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA), Tim Horn speaks with Nancy Crum-Cianflone, MD, MPH, a researcher and physician at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, about methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a potentially serious drug-resistant bacterial infection that is becoming increasingly more common among people living with HIV.  In part two of this two-part interview, Dr. Crum-Cianflone discusses treatments for MRSA and some of the treatment challenges in HIV-positive people, as well as ways to prevent the infection.

 


10 3/4 minutes. Transcript coming soon! To view Part 1, click here.

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