There isn’t one day that goes by that I don’t take care of at least one patient with MRSA (methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus) infection. I spent the last 3 posts talking about staph infections in general, including why it is that staph is able to cause such bad infections (see here), examples of some of […]

MRSA, commonly called “mer-sa” stands for methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus. In my last 2 posts I spoke in detail about Staphylococcus aureus (staph for short): how it goes about wreaking havoc (see here), and examples of the type of havoc wreaked (see here). In the mid 20th century when the antibiotic penicillin was first discovered, […]

In my last post (see here if you missed it) I went into detail about how Staphylococcus aureus, referred to from hereon as staph, is able to cause the complications that it does. Here I will give 4 examples of real cases I have seen over the past several years. To protect patient privacy, no […]

I’ve been meaning to write about staph for a long time as it is one of the commonest infectious diseases I treat. In this post I will give you an idea what staph is, how it gets into the body, how it ends up causing serious infections, and why some people get nightmarish complications and […]