infections was cellulitis and abscess,

Community outbreaks have been reported in sports teams, child care attendees, prison inmates, and diverse populations where habitation is relatively concentrated.

HA-MRSA and CA-MRSA have distinct clinical differences, both are transmitted in the same fashion—most frequently through direct skin-to-skin contact or contact with shared items or surfaces (such as towels or bandages) that have come into contact with someone else’s colonized or infected skin.

An estimated 25% to 30% of the general population are colonized with staph, however less than 2% are colonized with the more dangerous MRSA.

MRSA and CRKP can be found in hospital settings, inpatient communities, athletic facilities, gyms, locker rooms,

due to the skin to skin contact.

Working out bare handed or using typical leather gloves, with exposed fingers, puts you in direct contact with sweat, germs, staph and MRSA left behind by others

he developed a septic (blood) infection with red streaks racing up his arm.

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterium that causes infections in different parts of the body.

sores or boils

In fact, one third of everybody has staph bacteria in their noses.