Community-associated MRSA finally gets to central New York

In this issue of The Journal, Suryadevara et al calculate the pediatric population-based incidence and hospitalization-based prevalence of invasive Staphylococcus aureus infection from 1996 through 2006 at the University Hospital in Syracuse, which serves 14 counties in central New York state. Their data are useful because such denominators are infrequently used in the plethora of case series describing the decade's epidemic of community-associated methicillin-resistant S aureus (MRSA).