did mssa cause my splenic abscess?

Question

i was rushed in hospital with a raging temperature, they gave me a ct scan and it showed a splenic abscess, they say they found a name for my bug and it was staph aureus mssa476, did this cause my abcess, or was it a coincidence that i had an abcess at the same time of this bug thank you

sorry can someone explain what this is and what it does also

hi than you i didn't have it drained the dr's found i had a wall to wall splenic abcess on the ct scan they left me for a week treating me with antibiotics they said they were trying to get rid of it with antibiotics as they didn't want to chance removing it as it may burst, but it burst any way a week after they found it i was in agony they rushed me to theatre where i had it removed was a big emergency which left me with a huge what they called rooftop incision scar 10ins long left feeling scared and vulnerable now as what they told me to watch out for now that i have no splene they also took my gall bladder out with gall stones it's been a nightmare, I feel like im in some kind of twilight zone thank you

Answer 1

Sounds like your doctors forgot how to talk like regular human beings ^_^. MSSA stands for methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus, which is just saying that it's staph aureus, a type of bacteria (gram positive, if it matters, and it has a tendency to form abscesses) that is sensitive to methicillin. This is important not so much because we use that antibiotic, because we really don't, but MSSA strains are usually sensitive to other types of antibiotics related to it (which are the penicillins) so it's much easier to treat than MRSA - which is resistant to methicillin, so it usually requires antibiotics like vancomycin or linezolid.
So, if you have a high fever, an abscess in your spleen, and MSSA in your blood (it was a blood culture, right?) then it's likely that the bug is coming from the abscess. They probably had to surgically or via an interventional procedure (basically just using the imaging studies to stick a needle into it) drain the abscess, then gave you a bunch of IV antibiotics for a while, right? It's unlikely that it's just a coincidence for you to have a bug in your blood at the same time you had the abscess, they're most likely related, the one causing the other.
Hope that helps.

Answer 2

The way I heard it was M.R.S.A. methicilin resistant staphlycocus aures. (not sure about exact spelling without looking it up)