MRSA Notes

I have been contacted by a reporter doing a story on MRSA in Texas athletes: I’ve contacted several high school and college athletic trainers about MRSA and they told me it wasn’t a problem, they’d neither seen nor heard of any athletes being infected, and were just telling kids to wash their hands more often. [...]

…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 I have [...]

I mentioned the GeneXpert system a couple of weeks ago, when it was approved by the FDA, and now I am happy to say that the the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, TX has announced that they are the first hospital in TX and in the VA to install it. “A key [...]

This may be of interest to some of you who have been through this – I know it brings back memories for Marshall and I. “As she boarded the plane for Miami, Anna Nicole developed a painful abscess at the site of the injection,” said a source with knowledge of the case. “The needle wasn’t [...]

More details now after a little research – apparently Star Magazine and the National Enquirer have managed to get ahold of the autopsy report – bet they spent a fortune on it – but thats another story. Apparently Anna Nicole overdosed on chloral hydrate, a sleeping medication, but she was also suffering from a life [...]

I have just heard that the reason for the death of Anna Nicole Smith (which is to be announced officially on Monday morning), is a Staphylococcus aureus infection in her bloodstream (septicemia), along with a drug overdose. You may remember that her former stepson, Pierce Marshall, who Anna Nicole was in a bitter court battle [...]

Here you will find a video from Harlingen, TX Channel 4, about “Mary” and her plastic surgery nightmare – a wound that woudn’t close and the ensuing bladder infection that finally exposed the problem – MRSA. If you have a wound that isn’t acting right, get it checked out. The doctor in “Mary’s” case just [...]

Researchers at the Texas A&M Health Science Center (whoop!) have linked the PVL toxin in CA-MRSA to necrotizing pnemonia. This is frightening, but hopefully it is best to know what we are dealing with, rather than not knowing, which is so often the case with MRSA. I am going to let someone else more qualified [...]

In a general, but fairly good article on MRSA today, MRSA: Superbug or False Alarm?, NBC Dallas compares the nations fear of the ebola virus from a few years ago with the real and present danger of MRSA, and proclaims that MRSA is indeed a superbug and one we need to watch: In 1994, a [...]

Physicians at Houston’s Texas Children’s Hospital have discovered an association between community acquired MRSA and two muscular infections that are common in tropical countries and becoming more frequently found here: Pyomyositis is an acute bacterial infection of skeletal muscle that produces an abscess within the muscle. Myositis is also a muscle infection, but does not [...]