What You Need To Know About MRSA

Title:
What You Need To Know About MRSA
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722
Summary:
MRSA have two distinct strains: a type spread in hospitals and other health facilities, and a

Keywords:
infections, treatment, anxiety, skin infections,inflammation, bacterial infections

Article Body:
In recent weeks, drug-resistant staph infections have been making the headlines.

Top US docto

The culprit is MRSA, or methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, which is a form of the mo

Over time, germs evolve to withstand treatment. Most staph is no longer treatable by the grand

While MRSA is not a new problem, public anxiety about bacterial infection is. But the recent t


Staph infections occur only during close contact like sharing towels and razors, or rolling on

ˆSoap and water is the cheapest intervention we have, and it’s one of the most effective,˜ Ger

Diseases caused by MRSA are mostly skin infections, such as boils and abscesses. But it can so
MRSA have two distinct strains: a type spread in hospitals and other health facilities, and a

But the death of a 17-year-old Virginia high school student triggered a wave of reports of MRS

¯ Should schools close for cleaning if a student gets MRSA? Gerberding said that it’s not nece

ˆThere’s no need to go in and disinfect a whole school, because that isn’t how this organism i

¯ How worried should parents be? According to Gerberding, some 200 children a year will get se
Most outbreaks of community-spread MRSA occur not in schools but in prisons, where inmates sha

¯ Should every patient entering a hospital be tested for MRSA, and isolated if they harbor it?
Gerberding’s concern is that patients in isolation get less care. Doctors and nurses check on

The biological conundrum is that hospital-based MRSA is more common, vulnerable to fewer antib


It’s a strain called USA300 that penetrates the skin and cause key immune cells like the white

Invention of new antibiotics may help fight MRSA, but the fact that germs will always evolve m

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