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Why is the word aureus used in MRSA?

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What is an mrsa?

mrsa means multiple resistant staphylococus aureus. Is a bacteria which is resistant to several antibiotics


What dose MRSA stand for?

MRSA is metycilin resistent staphylococcus aureus, meaning that the bacteria SA is resistant to the antibiotic metycilin(I think I wrote the name correct) MRSA is Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus . It is a bacterial infection caused by a strain of Staph aureus which are resistant to most antibiotics and thus difficult to eradicate. It emerged in 1961 after Methicillin was used to treat this infection. It is now one of the most common Hospital acquired infections.


Can MRSA be found in your lungs?

MRSA In the LungsYes, MRSA, (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), which is caused by the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, more commonly called "staph," can be found in the lungs and can cause serious, and even fatal, pneumonia.


How does a unharmful staphylococcus turn into MRSA?

MRSA stands for methicilin-resistant staph aureus. MRSA is a type of staph, and a MRSA infection is a kind of staph infection.


Is staphylococcus aureus NITRATE positive?

Sounds like MRSA


How can you cure staphylococcus aureus?

cut out the infected tissue if it is mrsa


Is MRSA virus reproductive?

MRSA is a bacterium, (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus), not a virus. It does grow, but not like a virus.


Can MRSA be caused from mold or mildew?

MRSA - Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus. It is a bacterial infection, not a fungal infection.


What is the MRSA microbe scientific name?

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus


What pathogen causes mrsa?

MRSA is not a disease, it stands for "Methicilin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus", so it's a strain of S.aureus.


How is Mersa Contracted?

Its actually MRSA (Methycillin Resistant Staphlococcus aureus) also know as ORSA (Oxacillin Resistant Staphlococcus aureus). MRSA is the most common nosocomial infection (infection acquired in the hospital). MRSA enters through cuts and wounds om the skin.


How can methicillin resistant Staph aureus MRSA be treated?

Usually it can be treated with antibiotics.