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MRSA
S. aureus ("staph") is a common bacteria that normally lives on the skin and sometimes in the nasal passages. MRSA refers to S. aureus strains that do not respond to the antibiotics normally used to cure staph infections. The bacteria can cause in...
Source:ADAM
Date:January 25, 2008

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MRSA
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an infection caused by a strain of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) bacteria that is highly resistant to antibiotics.
Source:ADAM
Date:January 25, 2008
Ask The Doctor: Boils
Are boils contagious? Serena Koenig, M.D., M.P.H, is an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. She serves on the faculties of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities and Infectious Disease in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She divides her clinical time between a clinic in Haiti and the infectious disease and internal medicine services at Brigham and Women's Hospital. With grants from the NIH, she also conducts operational research on the most effective strategies to treat HIV and tuberculosis in Haiti using decision modeling techniques.
Source:StayWell
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