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Get the Facts - MRSA 101 - Stop MRSA Now! - 0 views

  • More than 90,000 Americans get potentially deadly MRSA infections every year
  • More deaths are linked to MRSA infections than AIDS.
  • two known types of MRSA.
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  • Healthcare-Associated (HA-MRSA
  • Community-Associated (CA-MRSA),
  • MRSA can be easily spread through skin-to-skin contact and by touching contaminated items
  • Scrub up
  • Wipe it down
  • over your cuts
  • Keep to yourself
  • Use a barrier
  • can cause a skin infection such as pimples, rashes, abscesses, boils or what can look like a spider bite
  • arm, painful, red or swollen.
  • contact a licensed health care professional,
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An Outbreak of Community-Acquired Foodborne Illness Caused by Methicillin-Resistant Sta... - 0 views

  • (MRSA) are increasingly community acquired.
  • 30 minutes after it was purchased
  • reheated in a home microwave
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  • 3 to 4 hours after eating the meal, the three adults--who had not eaten another common meal together in the preceding week--had nausea, vomiting, and stomach cramps.
  • not become ill.
  • Vomiting ceased after treatment with phenothiazine,
  • welve cultures of S. aureus recovered from stool samples of the ill family members, food specimens, and nasal swabs of the food preparers were sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for further testing.
  • This strain produced staphylococcal enterotoxin C and was identified as being MRSA.
  • esistant to penicillin and oxacillin
  • wo different strains of S. aureus recovered from the nasal swab of food preparer B
  • She reported no recent gastrointestinal illness nor chronic health problems, history of admission to a hospital, or use of antibiotics in the previous 6 months.
  • visit an elderly relative, who resided in a nursing home, approximately 2 to 3 times each month before the outbreak.
  • positive for two different strains of MSSA, but not MRSA
  • Staphylococcal food poisoning is estimated to account for 185,000 foodborne illnesses per year in the United States;
  • , MRSA has been considered primarily a health- care-associated pathogen, causing invasive disease in which multidrug resistance poses a substantial challenge to successful treatment.
  • s 20% to 40% of adults are estimated to be colonized at any time, a
  • MRSA becomes increasingly common in the community
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