Have worked in and around medical field as a cna and with mhmr for 14+ yrs and have always heard of MERSA , and now all of his being said with MRSA have to wonder is it the same ?
2007-10-18 09:20:42 · 3 answers · asked by tigruss_angel 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
I always pronounce methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as "em-arr-ess-ay" but many nurses I work with call it "mursa" (rhymes with "bursa"). I am confident they are one and the same. Granted, you work in a clinical setting, which is why you have known about it for more than a decade. MRSA was an emergent nosocomial infection then. However, MRSA is making headlines now because it is incresingly community-acquired (I'd blame bad hygiene: an unwillingness to wash hands thoroughly and insufficiently scrubbed bathtubs). Some people differentiate the two as hospital-acquired MRSA and CA-MRSA (obviously by circumstances of infection).
2007-10-18 12:00:39 · answer #1 · answered by Gumdrop Girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My father died from MERSA even after having his leg amputated due to it.
2014-05-11 12:16:37 · answer #2 · answered by Cindy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
It's abreivated MRSA
Which is pronounced mersa.
2007-10-18 22:50:24 · answer #3 · answered by *Millie* 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋