Progress on Stethoscope project / Discussion

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Stethoscope scare!

Kassie Hein 10 Nov 2009 03:47

ahhh that is scary that doctors, who are supposed to be curing people from sickness, are actually spreading sickness from patient to patient with their stethoscopes!! I never really took into consideration cleaning my stethoscope end-piece in between uses, but now that you say so, it makes perfect sense.

Kassie Hein

update...

MandieSue23 02 Dec 2009 14:22

ya so we have ruled out MRSA so far, after doing the MSA plates we did the D-nase plate and after repeating the experiement twice our results did not concur with Staph. a. so sadly less exciting no MRSA…. we do know though and are currently researching to find out what this bacteria is… we know that it is a spore forming bacteria