2006-06-19 10:21:55 · 6 answers · asked by SAHM/Part Time Tutor 4 in Health ➔ Other - Health
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are a type of staphylococcus or "staph" bacteria that are resistant to many antibiotics. Staph bacteria, like other kinds of bacteria, normally live on your skin and in your nose, usually without causing problems. MRSA is different from other types of staph because it cannot be treated with certain antibiotics such as methicillin.
Staph bacteria only become a problem when they cause infection. For some people, especially those who are weak or ill, these infections can become serious.
MRSA infections are more difficult to treat than ordinary staph infections. This is because the strains of staph that are known as MRSA do not respond well to many types of antibiotics—the types of medicines that are normally used to kill bacteria. When methicillin and other common antibiotic medicines do not work to kill the bacteria that is causing an infection, it becomes harder to get rid of the infection.
MRSA bacteria are more likely to develop when antibiotics are used too often or are not used correctly. Given enough time, bacteria can outsmart antibiotics so that these medicines no longer work well. This is why MRSA and other antibiotic-resistant bacteria are sometimes called "super bugs."
2006-06-19 10:24:37 · answer #1 · answered by osubuckeye 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a staph infection that is resistant to antiobiotics. It is really serious can be life threatening. I have heard of people dying from it in extreme cases. Mostly though if you get to a doctor right away it can be taken care of with really strong meds. and ointments.
2006-06-19 10:28:02 · answer #2 · answered by ♥USMCwife♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a highly lethal blood infection. It can only be caught in a hospital where surgery is performed. People who contract it have recently had surgery.
2006-06-19 10:24:39 · answer #3 · answered by J Somethingorother 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus, it's a type of bacteria that the most causative antibiotic wont work on... essentially incurable
2006-06-19 10:24:54 · answer #4 · answered by Nursen' 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A bacteria that has become resistant to many antibiotics, goggle or yahoo it.
2006-06-19 10:24:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRSA
2006-06-19 10:24:43 · answer #6 · answered by reesespieces60202 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋