My daughter received a third degree burn from a motorcycle accident. To day she went to the hospital because of on going infection. They informed her today that she has mesa. Can other family members become infected or are there different types of mrsa?
MRSA can be transmissible. MRSA stands for methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Staph aureus is a common bacterium often found on the skin. Some strains of staph can be very virulent, others less so. Methicillin resistant means it is a strain of staph that is not susceptible to the antibiotics usually used to treat it. There can be different strains of MRSA because there are different strains of staph. The MRSA are harder to treat because not so many antibiotics are effective enough. Staph can affect anybody. The fact that it is MRSA doesn't change that. People with weaker immune systems are more likely to get infected. Or people who have open wounds like abrasions or cut. The bacteria can get in through the wound and cause infection. The best things to do to prevent transmission is to wash your hands frequently and clean up areas, using gloves, where your daughter may have touched the infected burn on. Hope this helps.