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Methicillin ResistantStaphylococcus aureus
MRSA
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Name of Disease: MRSA
▪ Staphylococcus aureus, also called staph, is atype of germ known as bacteria.▪ Staph germs most often cause an infection on theskin as lesions, pimples or boils.▪ The infection can get into a surgical site, in theblood or cause pneumonia
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If the infection gets worse, the signs may betiredness, nausea or vomiting, shortness of breath, chest pain or skipped heart beats
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It is a type of infection that is hard to treatbecause it cannot be killed by many commonantibiotics
 
MRSA
it is known as Health care-associated MRSA or HA-MRSA▪ Community-associated MRSA, or CA-MRSA, isresponsible for serious skin and soft tissueinfections and for a serious form of pneumonia.Symptoms:▪ Generally start as small red bumps that resemblepimples, boils, or spider bites▪ These can quickly turn into deep, painfulabscesses that require surgical draining.
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