MRSA

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MRSA

• Timothy Bezouka
• Carter Perry
• Frank Brophy,Q

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MRSA

• MRSA is a bacterial disease. MRSA stands for
  methicillin-resistant-staphylococcus-aureus.
  Staphylococcus-aureus is the bacteria in MRSA.

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How You Get MRSA

• Most people that get it have weekend immune
  system. Like people who live in nursing homes.
  some people get it by sharing sports equipment or
  clothes

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Symptoms of MRSA

• There arent that much symptoms. The only ones
  you get are skin rashes, boils, absesses, STY,
  and bumps on your skin.

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Symptom Treatments

• What can I do to make myself feel better?
• SEE YOUR DOCTER
• Get lots of rest
• Clean your skin often
• Take antibiotics

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Treatment For The Disease

• Take antibiotics
• Take therapy

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Prevent the Spread

• Wash your hands after touching things, and dont
  share soap, towels, and sports equiptment.
• MRSA is transmitted by touching people exposed
  to it.

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News Article

• A research team from the McGill University Health
  Centre (MUHC) and McGill University has
  demonstrated that private rooms in the Intensive
  Care Unit (ICU) play a key role in reducing
  hospital infections like C-difficile...read
  article
• Can Predatory Bacteria Succeed Where Antibiotics
  Fail?11 January 2011
• There are predators in the bacterial world that
  consume other bacteria, much as predators attack
  prey in the animal world. A team led by
  researchers at the University of Medicine and
  Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey
  Dental...read article
• The Antibiotics Crisis How Did We Get Here And
  Where Do We Go Next?10 January 2011
• In recent years there has been a lot of news
  about the impending antibiotics crisis, brought
  to a head by renewed awareness that we are
  running out of drugs to treat evolving superbugs,
  and with the startling revelation...read
  article

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Websites Used

• http//kidshealth.org/teen/infections/bacterial_vi
  ral/mrsa.html
• Webmd.com