MRSA Notes

Well, I think this might be the first article I have seen from USA Today. I am thankful that such a nationally recognized newspaper is catching on!

Here is a snip from the article, read more by clicking the link below:

“The prevalence of this is so high, it has fundamentally changed the way physicians treat (staph infections),” said David Hooper of Massachusetts General Hospital. “You have to treat for the possibility of MRSA” by prescribing a more potent antibiotic, usually vancomycin.

That in turn fuels the growing resistance to vancomycin of intestinal bacteria called enterococci, said Vincent Jarlier of Groupe Hôpital Pitié-Salpetrière in Paris. “Certainly the huge quantity of vancomycin used because of the MRSA epidemic is part of the (vancomycin-resistant enterococci) epidemic,” he said. These resistant bacteria cause hard-to-treat intestinal infections.

MRSA infections are even showing up in animals, said veterinarian Scott Weese of Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph, Canada. The bacteria may be passed from people to their pets, and vice versa, he said.

USATODAY.com - ‘Superbugs’ infiltrate hospitals, communities

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