2006-11-15 10:39:30 · 5 answers · asked by ratman 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
It's actually called MRSA. and it's a highly infectious disease that is antibiotic resistant. It's common among people living in retirement homes. With a very progressive treatment it can be cured, but once you have MRSA you have it, and will always test positive for it.
2006-11-15 10:45:07 · answer #1 · answered by bunny 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
MRSA is Multi Resistance Staphyloccocus Aureus, also called Methcillin Resistant S. A. It is a staph infection resistant to treatment with antibiotics. There is good information on this at en.Wikipedia.com
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2006-11-15 11:33:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
methacillin resistant staph aurous mrsa. Yes it is a antibiotic resistant staph infection and very hard to cure. It is usually an infection gotten in a hospital or nursing home.
2006-11-17 07:19:58 · answer #3 · answered by bramblerock 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
methesellyne resistant staph, common among many types of people you dont know you have it until your immune system goes down, then it attacks, hospital workers can pick it up, people who have been patients in the hospital for a long time, but your common average joe if he did have it might not know it.
2006-11-16 07:21:42 · answer #4 · answered by LV 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRSA here it is. It is spelled MRSA no U
2006-11-15 11:22:58 · answer #5 · answered by diamantenkitty 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋