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MRSA : MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia - 0 views

  • prevent the spread of staph is for everyone to keep their hands clean
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MRSA: Get Facts on This Staph Infection and MRSA Symptoms - 0 views

  • MRSA means methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria
  • classified as CA-MRSA (community acquired) or HA-MRSA (hospital- or health-care-acquired)
  • person to person by direct contact with the skin, clothing, or area (for example, sink, bench, bed, and utensil) that had recent physical contact with a MRSA-infected person.
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  • CA-MRSA starts as skin infections
  • HA-MRSA can begin an infection of the skin, a wound
  • draining pus is often one of the first signs
  • MRSA infections are diagnosed by culture and antibiotic sensitivity testing of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria
  • almost always found to be resistant to multiple antibiotics.
  • need to have antibiotic susceptibility
  • frequently involves the use of vancomycin, often in combination with other antibiotics given by IV; CA-MRSA can often be treated
  • Prevention of MRSA is possible by excellent hygiene practices, avoiding skin contact with infected people or items they have touched, and by wearing disposable gloves, gowns, and masks when treating or visiting hospitalized MRSA patients
  • one of the 18 microbes listed by the CDC as a multidrug-resistant microbe or "superbug."
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MRSA: MedlinePlus - 0 views

  • Hospital-associated MRSA happens to people in healthcare settings. Community-associated MRSA happens to people who have close skin-to-skin contact with others
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