when checking for mrsa?

Question

I was diagnosed with mrsa but at first the doctor thought it was a spider bite, then he took a blood test. when he took the blood test, does they usually test for everything like hiv..etc., or just mrsa????? please help

Answer 1

mrsa (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus) cannot be detected in the blood (unless you are having a septicemia (bacterial infection in the blood circulation)). usually, it is detected by swabbing with some kind of sterile q-tip inside the nose. it is then put into growth media and detected.

for other blood test, almost anything could be done.

Answer 2

MRSA from a wound or spider bite is not detecteed by a blood test. Your doctor will swab the area and send it to the laboratory, where it will be cultured--that's where I come in. I work in the microbiology lab at a hospital. The reason I answered your question is to let you know that MRSA is very common these days. Yes, it is a nasty infection, and yes, it can be difficult to treat. I see MRSA grow from people's cultures EVERYDAY. So, while this can be very serious, I hope I have calmed your nerves a little bit. You're definitely not alone.
If your doctor took blood, he/she may have been checking your white blood cell count. It increases when your body is fighting an infection. Or perhaps your doctor was just taking precautions and collected a blood culture to make sure the MRSA hasn't reached your blood stream. Antibiotics should prevent that.
The thing you need to know is that when it comes to things like HIV, routine blood work doesn't just kind of pick these things up. There are very specific tests that have to be requested in order to detect HIV and other conditions. Because each test that a lab runs on your blood costs money, your doctor won't ask for them unless there's a reason, and the lab won't perform them unless asked.
I hope I made sense. Good luck with your infection, and stay on your antibiotics. Make sure your doctor treats this aggressively, and you should keep in constant contact with him or her. Like I said before, MRSA can become very serious.

Answer 3

Well the blood test will tell you the number of cells (leukocytes, RBCs, lymphocytes, etc.) that you have in your blood. So decreased levels of certain cells can give an indication on whether you may have an immune disease or not. But the gold standard for a positive HIV test that I know of is a western blot. Anyway the blood test would be examined for unusual microbes including staphylococcus. In the examination they would probably see other pathogens as well.
pd in the sources section i included a web site on mrsa

Answer 4

So okay, you have MRSA. A lot of people have MRSA. First of all, you need to find out where yours is. This way you'll know how NOT to infect others.
You also need to be on an antibiotic of some kind, vancomycin is one that is commonly used for MRSA. With MRSA, Vancomycin is usually given IV. Good luck.

Answer 5

I dont think that they would check for hiv if just looking for mrsa.

Many times, you get the spider bite, but the treaters give you the mrsa because many carry it on their skin or on surfaces at the office/hospital.


There is no gold standard for HIV testing because they dont check for HIV - the western blot checks for alleged HIV antibodies (but they are not specific to HIV despite what doctors say, about 75 conditions/circumstances are known to cause false positives)

Answer 6

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