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Can mrsa get into your body and cause your platellets to stay low?
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With Sepsis: This article discusses that issue: http://www.Ncbi.Nlm.Nih.Gov/pmc/articles/pmc3084641/. It is by mayo clinic & looks at people who become septic with staph aureus & develop thrombocytopenia (platelet count < 150 × 109/l. ).
Answered 8/24/2013
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