US infections rates related to kidney dialysis are higher among minorities, CDC reports
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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that bloodstream infection rates related to kidney dialysis are higher among Blacks and Hispanics and in areas with more poverty.
Using data from multiple national databases collected between 2017 and 2020, they estimated that potentially deadly Staphylococcus (or S.) aureus bloodstream infections occurred in 4,751 of every 100,000 Black patients receiving hemodialysis and 4,500 of every 100,000 Hispanic patients compared with 3,866 of every 100,000 white late-stage kidney disease patients receiving these treatments.
Roughly 40% of the infections were resistant to treatment with the antibiotic methicillin, the report found.
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