For the record - April 13, 2010
Infection: An Op-Ed article Sunday said that 61% of children in the intensive care unit of Johns Hopkins Hospital carried the community strain of MRSA staph infection. It should have said 6% of children carried MRSA infections, and 61% of them carried the community strain.
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