With the emergence of community-acquired methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus MRSA, these traditional antibiotics may be ineffective ; alternative antibiotics effective against community-acquired MRSA often include clindamycin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, and doxycycline.

While resistant to most beta lactam antibiotics commonly used for skin infections, it remains sensitive to alternative antibiotics, e. g., clindamycin ( Cleocin ), trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole ( Bactrim ), and doxycycline ( unlike hospital-acquired MRSA that may only be sensitive to vancomycin IV ).

In situations where the incidence of MRSA infections is known to be high, the attending physician may choose to use a glycopeptide antibiotic until the identity of the infecting organism is known.

Healthy individuals may carry MRSA asymptomatically for periods ranging from a few weeks to many years.

The initial presentation of MRSA is small red bumps that resemble pimples, spider bites, or boils ; they may be accompanied by fever and, occasionally, rashes.

Prisons, military barracks, and homeless shelters can be crowded and confined, and poor hygiene practices may proliferate, thus putting inhabitants at increased risk of contracting MRSA.

The study went on to conclude that netilmicin might be useful as an alternative to intravenous vancomycin, and suggested that topical applications of hydrogen peroxide may be useful to reduce MRSA on skin and some mucous membranes.

Ocean-dwelling living sponges produce compounds that may make MRSA more susceptible to antibiotics.

* ' MRSA in farm animals and meat ' ( 2007 ) This report focuses on a major new antibiotic-resistance problem in farming, which may have serious consequences for human health.

After extensive antimicrobial testing according to the Agency ’ s stringent test protocols, 355 copper alloys, including many brasses, were found to kill more than 99. 9 % of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ( MRSA ), E. coli O157: H7, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterobacter aerogenes, and vancomycin-resistant Enterococci ( VRE ) within two hours of contact.

Antimicrobial tests have also revealed significant reductions of MRSA as well as two strains of epidemic MRSA ( EMRSA-1 and EMRSA-16 ) on brass ( C24000 with 80 % Cu ) at room temperature ( 22 ° C ) within three hours.

report a death rate of 34 % within 30 days among patients infected with MRSA, a rate similar to the death rate of 27 % seen among MSSA-infected patients.

A report on skin and soft tissue infections in the Cook County Jail in Chicago in 2004 – 05 demonstrated that MRSA was the most common cause of these infections among cultured lesions and furthermore that few risk factors were more strongly associated with MRSA infections than infections caused by methicillin-susceptible S. aureus.

A report released by The University of Chicago Children's Hospital comparing two time periods ( 1993 – 1995 and 1995 – 1997 ) found a 25-fold increase in the rate of hospitalizations due to MRSA among children in the United States.

A population-based study of the incidence of MRSA infections in San Francisco during 2004 – 05 demonstrated that nearly 1 in 300 residents suffered from such an infection in the course of a year and that greater than 85 % of these infections occurred outside of the healthcare setting.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has approved the registration of 355 different antibacterial copper alloys that kill E. coli O157: H7, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ( MRSA ), Staphylococcus, Enterobacter aerogenes, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in less than 2 hours of contact.

After 72 hours, MRSA can take hold in human tissues and eventually become resistant to treatment.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has approved the registration of 355 different antimicrobial copper alloys that kill E. coli O157: H7, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ( MRSA ), Staphylococcus, Enterobacter aerogenes, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in less than 2 hours of contact.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has approved the registration of 355 different antibacterial copper alloys that kill E. coli O157: H7, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ( MRSA ), Staphylococcus, Enterobacter aerogenes, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in less than 2 hours of contact.

To keep surfaces clean, in addition to regular cleaning, antimicrobial copper-alloys are used in a wide range of products to kill E. coli O157: H7, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ( MRSA ), Staphylococcus, Enterobacter aerogenes, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in less than 2 hours of contact.

Ethanol has proven to be an effective topical sanitizer against MRSA.

Recurrent abscesses are often caused by community-acquired MRSA.

* Transmission by direct or indirect contact with dried skin ( e. g., colonisation with MRSA ) or contaminated surfaces

The widespread use and misuse of antibiotics has resulted in increased microbial resistance to antibiotics in clinical use, to the point that the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ( MRSA ) has been described as a " superbug " because of the threat it poses to health and its relative invulnerability to existing drugs.

Response strategies typically include the use of different, stronger antibiotics ; however, new strains of MRSA have recently emerged that are resistant even to these drugs.

These were significant for their activity against β-lactamase-producing bacterial species, but were ineffective against the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ( MRSA ) strains that subsequently emerged.

In addition, infections caused by community-acquired strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ( MRSA ) in otherwise healthy individuals have become more frequent in recent years.

Quinolones, in comparison to other antibiotic classes, have among the highest risk of causing colonization with MRSA and Clostridium difficile.

Fluoroquinolones are considered high-risk antibiotics for the development of Clostridium difficile and MRSA infections.

* Transmission by direct or indirect contact with dried skin ( e. g., colonisation with MRSA ) or contaminated surfaces or any combination of the above.

Notable examples of this mode of resistance include methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ( MRSA ) and penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae.

*" Mercer " or " Mercer's Bacterial Disease " is a common misnomer for the acronym MRSA or Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

This type of scarring is often associated with acne, chickenpox, other diseases Staphylococcus ( or MRSA ) infection, surgery, or accidents.

MRSA might also be an issue in Lemierre infections.

Methicillin-resistant S. aureus, abbreviated MRSA and often pronounced or, is one of a number of greatly feared strains of S. aureus which have become resistant to most antibiotics.

He and also Mr. Cowley and Mr. Warren have fallen to the temptation which besets many of us to read into our authors -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, for example, and Herman Melville -- protests against modernism, material progress, and science which are genuine protests of our own but may not have been theirs.

Free world decisions in this matter may spell the difference between world disaster and world progress in freedom.

The evident contradiction between the rosy picture of Russia's progress painted by the Communist party's program and the enormous dangers for all humanity posed by Premier Khrushchev's Berlin policy has already led to speculation abroad that the program may be severely altered.

A natural-born subject owes allegiance wherever they may be, so that where territory is occupied in the course of hostilities by an enemy's force, even if the annexation of the occupied country is proclaimed by the enemy, there can be no change of allegiance during the progress of hostilities on the part of a citizen of the occupied country ( R v Vermaak ( 1900 ) 21 NLR 204 ( South Africa )).

" The CDN also may " study, propose, and monitor the progress of initiatives necessary to guarantee national independence and the defense of the democratic state.

Due to the large number of calculations, a work in progress is usually only rendered in detail appropriate to the portion of the work being developed at a given time, so in the initial stages of modeling, wireframe and ray casting may be used, even where the target output is ray tracing with radiosity.

( In some instances a player may choose to stop the jumping sequence part way, in order to impede the opponent's progress, or to align pieces for planned future moves.

When a castle appears on the event die, progress cards of the corresponding type may be drawn depending on the value of the red die.

Learners may be motivated by aspirations for progress and betterment.

Earned value may be accumulated monthly, weekly, or as progress is made.

This may be due to an expressive aphasiac's awareness and greater insight of their impairment ( unlike in receptive aphasia ), which motivates him / her to progress in treatment.

Seizures start as separate simple partial or complex partial seizures and may progress to epilepsia partialis continua ( simple partial status epilepticus ).

For example, when a web server is required to customize the content of a web page for a user, the web application may have to track the user's progress from page to page.

These may be initially associated with secretion of excess thyroid hormone, but usually progress to gland dysfunction and, thus, to hormone deficiency and hypothyroidism.

Every convict detained in a TBS-clinic may get temporary leave, after serving a certain time or after some progress in treatment.

Some cases may be mild and progress very slowly over a normal lifespan, while others produce severe muscle weakness, functional disability, and loss of the ability to walk.

In most forms of CMS, weakness does not progress, and in some forms, the symptoms may diminish as the patient gets older.

High risk infants may be identified by fetal tachycardia, bradycardia or absence of fetal accelerations upon CTG in utero, at birth the infant may look cachexic and show signs of yellowish meconium staining on skin, nail and the umbillical cord, these infants usually progress onto Infant Respiratory distress syndrome within 4 hours.

Bush states that " technical difficulties of all sorts have been ignored ," but that, " also ignored are means as yet unknown which may come any day to accelerate technical progress as violently as did the advent of the thermionic tube.

The important consequence of this is that each person may receive confirmation that particular doctrines taught by a prophet are true, as well as gain divine insight in using those truths for their own benefit and eternal progress.

The phrase may also refer to a hand in progress with cards yet to be dealt, as the player can be said to have the nuts at that time.

Progressive is an adjectival form of progress and may refer to:

Non-playable characters may be bystanders, competitors, bosses, or may exist to aid the player's progress in the game.