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,

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