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Yes; MRSA enters the body via a break in the skin.

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What part of the body does MRSA start?

MRSA can enter any break (cut) in the skin.


How can you cure staphylococcus aureus?

cut out the infected tissue if it is mrsa


Can visitors to a MRSA patient be infected?

Visitors to a MRSA patient be infected if precautions are not taken, and a visitor with a cut in their skin is especially susceptible to contracting the infection.


Is MRSA terminal?

MRSA is a serious staph bacterial infection. Referred to as the "flesh eating bacteria", it can cause such severe skin and tissue infection that surgeons must cut off a patient's hands, feet, or whole limbs to stop the advancing infection. In the worst cases, MRSA can kill.


What is septic MRSA?

Septic (sepsis) MRSA means that the MRSA bacteria has entered into the blood.


What is the MRSA colonized resident?

MRSA colonized resident means that the person is a carrier of the MRSA bacteria.


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.


Does Moxifloxacin kill MRSA?

No. MRSA is resistant to Amoxicillin.


What microbe causes MRSA?

does MRSA cause bacteria


Is mrsa serious when found in the saliva?

MRSA can be in saliva.


Is MRSA a virus?

MRSA is still very rare and will not be in the air. Some studies do talk of the 'MRSA' cloud that can be around an MRSA sufferer, who is ill enough that they do not move very much. An MRSA carrier who may not be ill from the bacteria but has symptoms of respitory infection that lead them to sneeze and cough can project the the MRSA bacteria all around them.


What if your spouse cheated can you get MRSA from that?

I guess you "could" get MRSA from your cheating spouse, although MRSA is not commonly spread sexually.