MRSA Notes

Don’t miss Sarah Boseley’s article at The Guardian about the dangers of hospitals and the bugs that have made their home there. There is nothing that new or life changing in her article, but she reiterates a lot of the stuff I say here every day. And I love that.

But what tends to be forgotten is that they turn up in hospitals because, first of all, they live among us in the community. Bacteria were here before we were and they are unbelievably resilient. We have fought them since the invention of penicillin with what appeared to be an ever-larger and more powerful arsenal of antibiotics. They have simply mutated and developed new modes of attack of their own. So, where we once had staphylococcus aureus, we now have MRSA - a variant of staph aureus that is resistant to methycillin, the antibiotic normally used against it (penicillin long ago became useless).

Awareness, HA MRSA, Infection Prevention, MRSA

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