MRSA Notes

A University of Missouri-Kansas City researcher has discovered an important element of how Staphylococcus aureus disables the body’s immune system. Normally, when a threating bacteria enters the body, the body sends immune system protiens that break into smaller protiens and trigger the body’s further immune system defense. Staph bacteria produces a protien calle [...]

A reporter is looking for HA-MRSA (hospital acquired MRSA) patients in the state of Missouri. If you happen to be interested in tellng your story and you fit the criteria, please email me at christina@b5media.com, and I will get you in touch with the right people.
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15 football players have acquired impetigo, a rash caused by Staphylococcal bacteria - thankfully it is not the antibiotic resistant bacteria (MRSA), but the high school is taking the opportunity to thoroughly santize its athletic areas.
About impetigo:

Impetigo mainly affects infants and children, usually when bacteria enter the skin through cuts or insect bites. But [...]

Brandon, a 2 yr old boy is discovered to have a CA-MRSA infection after a fall. From the Missouri News Tribune:
On May 4, two-year-old Brandon Stafford of Jefferson City was happily bouncing up and down on a trampoline while visiting his father in Memphis, Tenn., when he landed on his leg. While it didn’t [...]

Thanks to Tricia for sending me this:
ESPN.com
ST. LOUIS — Jack Snow, a star wide receiver for the Los Angeles Rams and a longtime team broadcaster, died Monday night, the club said. He was 62.
Snow had been hospitalized on and off for the past two months with a staph infection. His family was with [...]

“The St. Louis area is seeing an increase in a potentially deadly staph infection. It’s called MRSA.
So far, 41 cases have been treated this year. There were only 17 reported cases in the last three years combined.
The infection is found in prisons, daycare centers, nursing homes and hospitals.
It’s not yet known why MRSA cases are [...]

“It’s been escalating astronomically,” said Burmeister, who is also an epidemiologist at Jefferson Memorial Hospital. “The biggest problem isthe level of knowledge among doctors. They are looking at it and sayingit looks like a brown spider bite and then they don’t treat it in anappropriate manner.”
One of his patients, a woman from Waterloo who didn’t [...]