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Anyone exposed to bacteria or other pathogens in health care locations can become infected. What makes an infection nosocomial is that it was "caught" at a health care facility. They are also usually hard infections to treat, such as antibiotic resistant bacterial infections, like MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staph Aureus) infections.

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