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MRSA for all those people out there who don’t know stands for methicillin resistant staph aureus. Staph aureus is very common bacteria that typically lives on skin and can cause soft tissue infections. MRSA is a type of staph aureus that is resistant to many different antibiotics and because of that can be difficult to treat. Initially it was a bacteria that was only seen in hospitalized patients that had been exposed to many antibiotics. Unfortunately recently there have been a lot of infections in non-hospitalized people in the community. This stain looks like it is genetically different from the one seen in hospitalized patients. In terms of prevention good hand washing will help, but if you are in physical contact with people with MRSA it can be difficult not to get exposed to it. That doesn’t necessarily mean getting infected.
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