Methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection is caused by
Staphylococcus aureus bacteria often called "staph."
Decades ago, a strain of staph emerged in hospitals that was
resistant to the broad-spectrum antibiotics commonly used to
treat it. Dubbed methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA),
or superbug,
it was one of the first germs to outwit all but the most
powerful drugs. MRSA infection can be fatal.
CA-MRSA
Breaking News
MRSA infections
that are acquired by persons who have not been recently
(within the past year) hospitalized or had a medical procedure
(such as dialysis, surgery, catheters) are known as CA-MRSA
infections. Staph or MRSA infections in the community are
usually manifested as skin infections, such as pimples and
boils, and occur in otherwise healthy people.
In the past decade or so the number of MRSA infections in the United States has increased significantly. A 2007 report in Emerging Infectious Diseases, a publication of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), estimated that the number of MRSA infections treated in hospitals doubled nationwide, from approximately 127,000 in 1999 to 278,000 in 2005, while at the same time deaths increased from 11,000 to more than 17,000. Another study led by the CDC and published in the October 17, 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association estimated that MRSA would have been responsible for 94,360 serious infections and associated with 18,650 hospital stay-related deaths in the United States in 2005. These figures suggest that MRSA infections are responsible for more deaths in the U.S. each year than AIDS.
MRSA
Symptoms
Most MRSA infections are skin
infections that produce the following signs and symptoms:
* cellulitis (infection of the skin or the fat and tissues that lie immediately beneath the skin, usually starting as small red bumps in the skin),
* boils (pus-filled infections of hair follicles),
* abscesses (collections of pus in under the skin),
* sty (infection of eyelid gland),
* carbuncles (infections larger than an abscess, usually with several openings to the skin), and
* impetigo (a skin infection with pus-filled blisters).
MRSA infections
can quickly turn into deep, painful abscesses that require
surgical draining. Sometimes the bacteria remain confined to
the skin. But they can also burrow deep into the body, causing
potentially life-threatening infections in bones, joints,
surgical wounds, the bloodstream, heart valves and lungs.
Photos of Staphylococcus
Infections
Other symptoms of MRSA infection may include:
* Drainage of pus or other fluids from the site * Fever * Warmth around the infected area * Rash * Shortness of breath * Fever * Chills * Chest pain * Fatigue * Muscle aches * Malaise (general feeling of illness) * Headache
Treatment
of CA-MRSA Infections
Draining the skin sore is often the only treatment needed for a local skin MRSA infection. This can be done at the doctor's
office.
Both hospital and community associated strains of MRSA still
respond to certain medications. More serious MRSA infections, especially HA-MRSA infections, are becoming increasingly difficult to treat. Antibiotics that may still work include vancomycin (Vancocin, Vancoled), trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (Bactrim, Bactrim DS, Septra, Septra DS), linezolid (Zyvox), tetracycline (doxycycline), or
clindamycin.
Although
vancomycin saves lives, it may grow resistant as well; some
hospitals are already seeing outbreaks of vancomycin-resistant
MRSA. To help reduce that threat, doctors may drain an abscess
caused by MRSA rather than treat the infection with drugs.
It is important to finish all doses of antibiotics you have been given, even if you feel better before the final dose. Unfinished doses can lead to development of further drug resistance in the bacteria.
MRSA In Your
Community?
Prevention of
Staphylococcus Aureus
Clean your hands (keep
your hands clean)
Clean your
hands frequently with soap and warm water or an
alcohol-based hand rub.
Hand
Hygiene
Information about washing/cleaning your hands.
Guideline
for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings
Hand hygiene and environmental control recommendations
of the CDC's Healthcare Infection Control Practices
Advisory Committee (HICPAC), in collaboration with the
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA),
the Association of Professionals in Infection Control
and Epidemiology (APIC), the Infectious Disease
Society of America (IDSA).
Do not share
razors, towels, or similar items with others.
Testimony
Of Silver Treatments
Dr. Robert O. Becker, MD, noted biomedical researcher from Syracuse University, and author of The Body Electric and Cross Currents, recognized a correlation between low silver levels and sickness. He said silver deficiency is responsible for the improper functioning of the immune system.
Extensive research into the curative properties of silver has been conducted for many years at the Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y. under the direction of Dr. Becker. The experiments conclude that silver works on a wide range of bacteria,
as a natural
antibiotic without any known side-effects or damage to the cells of the body.
Regarding the innate ability of metallic silver to control infection, Dr. Becker said: "all of the organisms that we tested were sensitive to the electrically generated silver ion, including some that were resistant to all known antibiotics." On the safety of silver, he said, "in no case were any undesirable side effects of the silver treatment apparent."
"What we have actually done was rediscover the fact that silver kills bacteria, which had been known for centuries ... when antibiotics were discovered, clinical uses for silver as an antibiotic were discarded," concludes Dr. Robert O. Becker, M.D.
Definitions
(For Those of Us Who are Medically Challenged)
Methicillin - A
semisynthetic penicillin C17H19N2O6NaS
that is especially effective against beta-lactamase producing
staphylococci.
Staphylococcus Aureus
-
Known as "Staph", literally "Golden Cluster
Seed" and also known as golden staph, is the most common
cause of staph
infections, a genus of nonmotile gram-positive
spherical bacteria of the family Micrococcaceae that occur
singly, in pairs or tetrads, or in irregular clusters and
include causative agents of various diseases and disorders (as
food poisoning, skin infections, and endocarditis)
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