MRSA Notes

From Westerly, RI, The Westerly Sun:

A bacterial disease once found in gravely ill patients in large urban hospitals is now commonly detected in otherwise healthy adults and children locally, according to Westerly Health Coordinator Dr. Tobias M. Goodman.

Staphylococcus aureus, long recognized as a virulent pathogen, has now become antibiotic resistant and is commonly found in Westerly as MRSA, Goodman said.

“The lesson of this is that casual use of antibiotics without strict indications is not a good idea. They should not be dispensed for viral illnesses such as colds,” he asserted.

“In hospitals, nursing homes or chronically ill health care settings people’s immune systems or their body’s own flora (bacterial life) might be altered by their disease or treatment,” said Dr. Christopher M. Lehrach, chief of emergency services at The Westerly Hospital. Under these pressures, these organisms can then become resistant to the antibiotics that are traditionally administered.”

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