MRSA

MRSA

Overview of MRSA

* Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ( Mrsa) a strain from staph bacteria that has become resistant to antibiotics. Can occur on top of skin and nasal passages.

* skin to skin contact. Usually starts at like a spider bite or pimples then in a lot of pain which leads to surgical draining. Symptoms fever, fatigue, rash.

* infection can affect your heart, bones, joints. Lungs and bloodstream.

Symptoms of MRSA

-Staph skin infections present themselves as a red, inflamed area on the skin followed by any of the following symptoms:

• Fever

• Blisters underneath the skin

• Warmth or heat sensation in the infected area

• Pus and fluids leaking from the site

Treatment of MRSA

-Draining the skin of the infected area

-certain antibiotics

-kidney dialysis

-maggots are being used to eat MRSA infected flesh in modern studies (old medieval tactic).

How to Contract it:

*Spread through skin contact

* It can live on surfaces for months

* Usually found in the nose but also can be found on hands

* It will start out like a boil or small red dots eventually has puss around the infected area, then signs of Sepsis such as fever, chill, mental deterioration. MRSA is usually contracted from long time hospitalized patients. Most likely to get MRSA in a hospital when you immune system is not very strong.

MRSA on a Cellular Level

1. Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus is resistant to Methicillin, Oxacillin, Penicillin, Amoxicillin, Cephalosporius, and Voncomycin (one of the best last-resort antibiotics)

2. MRSA cells will continue to replicate in the presence of the above mentioned antibiotics

3. Antibiotics WILL destroy symbiotic bacteria in the body, having a detrimental affect on the immune system

MRSA Statistics

More people die each year from MRSA than the AIDS virus

In 2005 MRSA was responsible for the deaths of 19,000 people, and 94,000 life threatening infections

In 2003-2004 Hospitals in England saw a 548% increase in MRSA related deaths

In 2003 64% of hospital onset infections were MRSA infections

How MRSA is Diagnosed

A sample of pus from a wound, blood, or biopsy material is sent to the microbiology lab to test for S. aureus.

If there is S. aureus it is grown in a petri plate and then they are exposed to different antibiotics.

If the S . aureus grows with the methicilin in the petri plat the patient is diagnosed with MRSA

How MRSA affects the human body

• If MRSA is not monitored or trated properly it can spread and affect the blood, bones, and major organs(like the heart and lungs).
• The most affected part of the body is the skin, since it can cause boils, blisters, hair root infection, and peeling skin.

Bibliography

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/mrsa_infection/page5_em.htm

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