MRSA Notes

My dear friend and the moderator of our MRSA forum, Peg McQueary, has her incredible story featured tonight on Nightline (11:35pm ABC).  I can’t begin to tell you how much Peg has touched my heart in the almost 3 years now that I have known her.   My husband can testify that I have spent [...]

I get email from different people nearly every day with questions, comments and stories of their individual MRSA experiences, and have since beginning MRSA Resources nearly 3 years ago. This is a story I received a couple of weeks ago:

Christina,
I’m a 37 year old male, I have a wife and two boys, 15 and [...]

Sadly, the catalyst for letting this MRSA problem out of the closet was the death of a Staunton River High School (VA) student, Ashton Bonds. My heart goes out to Ashton’s family.

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…Of those people trying to keep this problem (maybe I can safely say epidemic now??) swept under the rug. It was only a matter of time. If the flurry of traffic and comments here at MRSA Notes and over at MRSA Resources as well is any indication, along with the slurry of emails [...]

 Four year old Caleb Noblitt survived an MRSA infection in his pelvis and spine, and is part of a video on channel 4 in Denver - looking just as vibrant as a little child should.  Bless his heart, I can only imagine what his family has gone through! 
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Jarvis Moss, the first round draft pick of the Denver Broncos, suffered a staph infection two years ago that brings back memories of our ordeal, and might for you too:

If I showed you film of what he was like the first spring — he was 215 pounds,” said Meyer, who became Florida’s coach two years [...]

Australian Olympic swimmer Grant Hackett has been hospitalized with a blood infection stemming from a cut on his ankle. MRSA? Hopefully not, but unfortunately, its very likely.
He is in Beijing, the home of the next Olympics, doing some promotional work, and therefore is currently hospitalized there.
Best wishes to Grant and his [...]

Good news for the future of speedy MRSA testing (currently a rushed test still takes 24 hours or more to get results)! Cepheid’s Xpert MRSA Test has been cleared by the FDA for marketing to hospitals. For all ‘yall with the need to know more, here are some gory details:

The GeneXpert System is [...]

Results from a survey of 364 certified U.S. athletic trainers (presented at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America) revealed that 53% of them had treated MRSA in the atheletes under their care:

Of the infections treated: 86 percent were in males and 35 percent were in females; 65 percent were in football players; 21 percent [...]

In the study of MRSA, the word biofilm comes up a lot. This is the problem with the plumbed pedicure units - a biofilm forms on the pipes. Have you ever had to replace the plumbing under your kitchen sink? Surely I am not the only one. The disgusting stuff [...]