{"id":1725,"date":"2008-05-05T11:56:04","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T11:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/mrsa_infections_in_hospitals_a\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:07:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:07:38","slug":"mrsa-infections-in-hospitals-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/mrsa-infections-in-hospitals-a\/","title":{"rendered":"MRSA Infections in Hospitals and the Community Continue to Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MRSA is a staph becteria which has been in the news in recent years as serious problems have been reported in hospitals and other health care facilities. Staph bacteria, even those that aren&#8217;t resistant to antibiotics, have long caused serious infections.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1960s, the first reports surfaced of staph infections that had stopped responding to the antibiotic methicillin. Over the decades, those strains have spread, and the germs have developed resistance to other drugs, largely in hospitals where they infect patients weakened by disease or made vulnerable through surgical wounds and catheters.<\/p>\n<p>MRSA still poses the greatest threat in hospitals, where strains are usually genetically different and, because of antibiotic use, more difficult to kill than those circulating out in the community. About 85 percent of life-threatening, invasive MRSA infections involve people who have been hospitalized, lived in a nursing home or been treated in some other health care facility.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/mrsa-infections-in-hospitals-a\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading MRSA Infections in Hospitals and the Community Continue to Rise\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MRSA is a staph becteria which has been in the news in recent years as serious problems have been reported in hospitals and other health care facilities. Staph bacteria, even those that aren&#8217;t resistant to antibiotics, have long caused serious infections. 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