Using data from the 2000–2004 US Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project National Inpatient Sample, we found that total hospital admissions for skin and soft tissue infec-tions increased by 29% during 2000–2004; admissions for pneumonia were largely unchanged. These results are con-sistent with recent reported increases in community-associ-ated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusinfections
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