MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (often misspelled as and searched as ” MSRA Symptoms “), is a bacterium that has developed antibiotic resistance, first to penicillin in 1947, and later to methicillin and related “anti-staph drugs”. Popularly termed a “superbug”, it was first discovered in Britain in 1961 and is now widespread. While an MRSA colonisation in an otherwise healthy individual is not usually a serious matter, infection with the organism can be life-threatening to patients with deep wounds, intravenous catheters or other foreign-body instrumentation, or as a secondary infection in patients with compromised immune systems.
Because cystic fibrosis patients are often treated with multiple antibiotics in hospital settings, they are often colonised with MRSA, potentially increasing the rate of life-threatening MRSA pneumonias among them. The risk of cross-colonisation has led to increased use of isolation protocols among these patients.
In the US there are increasing reports of outbreaks of MRSA colonisation […]
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