MRSA

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Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, otherwise known as MRSA, is a bacterial infection that irritates the skin. MRSA looks like swollen, red, painful, and puss filled wounds, as shown in figure one. MRSA is hard to get rid of because it has created resistance to certain antibiotics.1To get rid of MRSA the doctors will give you strong antibiotics that are used only for highly resistant bacteria and the wound may also have to be drained of the puss pockets that may have formed around the infection site. MRSA is spread by contact with a person that carries that bacteria.2 You can get it from close skin to skin contact, contaminated surfaces, crowded living spaces such as hospitals and jails, or poor hygiene. How do you know if you have MRSA? MRSA starts as small red bumps that resemble pimples, boils or spider bites. This can quickly turn into deep, painfull abscesses that require surgical draining. Approximately 25-30% of these abscesses are infected with MRSA or Staphylococcus.1  =====

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After you get MRSA and get rid of it, if your not careful, it can come back. Staph bacteria are normally found on the skin or in the nose of about 1/3 of the population. If you have staph on your skin or in your nose but aren't sick, you are said to be colonized but not infected. Signs and symptoms of a wound infection are redness, warmth, and tenderness of the wound. Puss, a yellowish-white fluid, that may have a foul smell is also a sign of a more advanced infection. Fever may also occur. Doctors can diagnose MRSA by a biopsy of tissue or swabbing nasal secretions for signs of drug resistent bacteria.5 In hospitals and care facilities doctors often rely on the antibiotics vamsonycin to treat the resistant agent. Although vamsonycin can save lives it may become less effective over long periods of treatment. MRSA is most common in people who have weak immune systems because their body can't fight off infection like a regular person could with a strong immune system. MRSA causes more than 60% of staph infections. MRSA is also known as a "super bug" because of its resistance to antibiotics.1 MRSA was first noticed in 1961, about two years after the antibiotic methicillin was initially used to treat S. aureus and other infectious bacteria.3 One major problem with MRSA is that occasionally the skin infection can spread to almost any other organ in the body. When this happens more severe symptoms develop. MRSA that spreads to internal organs can become life threatening. Fever, chills, low blood presure, joint pains, severe headaches, shortness of breath, and rash over most of the body are symptoms that need immediate attention. MRSA a particular type of Staphylococcus aureus that does not respond to many antibiotics, such as Methicillin, which is a type of penicillin.2 That's why MRSA stands for "Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus." MRSA was seen in several countries in the 1960's, which then increased the use of antibotics. This increased use of antibiotics then caused new strains of MRSA to have emerged within the past twenty years. These new resistant strains developed because some antibotics can't destroy the bateria that forms MRSA. The antibiotic doesn't work if the bacteria don't have the same characterisics as the bacteria that you are infected with.5 If you think you have MRSA you will have to go to the doctor or hospital to have tests or swabs taken.   Besides humans, animals can get MRSA too. If your animal is having hair loss then you should get it checked out as soon as possible. If it gets to infected with the infection you may have to put your animal down or you may have to pay large fee for surgery. The surgery would cost at least 1000 dollars. You can get MRSA pretty much anywhere on your body .4  =====

3.MRSA infections. 20 Jul. 2008. M.F.M.E.R. 5 Mar. 2009. <[]>
4.Overview of Healthcare - associaed MRSA. 8 Oct. 2008. 24 Fed. 2009. <[]> 5.MRSA infections. 2009. Health Solutions. 5 Feb. 2009. 