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Bacteria fight goes to jail
By Kevin Krause, McClatchy/Tribune news
Published: 03/09/2009

DALLAS — The Dallas County Jail is the site of one of the most comprehensive studies ever undertaken of a dangerous, drug-resistant bacterial infection that has alarmed health officials across the nation.

Last month, the Parkland Memorial Hospital staff began handing out medicated cleansing cloths to hundreds of participating inmates to see whether the cloths will stop the spread of the infectious, flesh-eating bacteria methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.

It's part of a three-year University of Chicago study of the spread of staph infections in the jail that began last year. The medical research team selected Dallas County's jails over the Los Angeles County jail system — the nation's largest. Read more.


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