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The Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY -- Doctors determined Utah's attorney general doesn't have a deadly form of infection in a leg broken in multiple places in a motorcycle accident.
Spokesman Scott Troxel says Attorney General Mark Shurtleff had another operation Monday that showed his leg infection isn't spreading.
University Hospital sent Shurtleff home to recover for six weeks with an IV antibiotic drip.
Shurtleff has had five operations on his left leg and two on his shoulder, all stemming from the motorcycle crash last fall.
Tests showed the infection wasn't methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. That's a strain of staph that's resistant to a broad spectrum of antibiotics. MRSA can be fatal, according to the Mayo Clinic's Web site.
Shurtleff's chief spokesman, Paul Murphy, recovered from MRSA a year ago. Murphy says it was a complication from a torn knee.
Trouble can come in spades, even in the same office.
Both Troxel, 27, and Shurtleff's chief criminal deputy Ray Hintze have recently had open-heart surgery.
"If you were thinking of coming to work here, forget it," Troxel said.
People at the attorney general's office are urging Shurtleff to take time for a full recovery, he said.
"We want him to take this time to rest and spend time with his family," Troxel said. "We've got over 400 people here with staff and attorneys to hold the fort down."
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