Question

Review an article about one of the following infections/superbugs: MRSA, VRE or C-diff.

How is the infection spread?

Is it treatable and preventable?

Are there long-term effects if left untreated?

How prevalent is the infection/How common is it?

Discuss an incident of a poor outcome or fatality related to the infection.

Answer 1

MRSA is a methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus(MRSA) bacterium that makes infection in various parts of the body. It spread through infected people when there is crowding, sharing equipment, skin to skin contact. when there are abrasions there is a chance of MRSA infection pass through it.
It can be treated with some antibiotics like amoxicillin, penicillin, oxacillin. It can be preventable through strict hygiene, wound care, culture test and antimicrobial therapy.
If this infection was untreated it causes pneumonia and sepsis.
Most people carry MRSA infection in the nose and cause long term infection and pneumonia. It causes bloodstream infections, surgical site infections, and causes sepsis. worldwide around 74% of s. aureus infections are MRSA infection.
Incident of a poor outcome include metastatic infections like infective endocarditis, septic arthritis, osteomyelitis, sepsis, and septic shock.