MRSA is short for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections. There are currently two types of MRSA: community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) and hospital-acquired MRSA (HA-MRSA).
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- Wikipedia: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Encyclopedia article with history, symptoms and signs, treatment, and prevention.
- CDC/NIOSH: MRSA and the Workplace Factsheet with prevention measures and disease information.
- MRSA Watch Features news, disease information, and links to related resources.
- MRSA Action UK Organization with the purpose to raise public awareness about the disease and influence the government and healthcare sectors. Includes news, forum, weblog, newsletter, memorials, and disease information.
- Living with MRSA Includes factsheet with illustrations from the Tacoma-Pierce County, Washington Health Department.
- Topix: MRSA News Headline links from media sources worldwide.
- Topix: MRSA News Headline news about the disease.
- DermNet NZ: MRSA Facts about the disease from the New Zealand Dermatological Society.
- Minnesota Dept. of Health: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Disease statistics and basics, plus information for schools, health professionals, correctional facilities, and athletic programs.
- North Carolina Public Health: What is Community-Associated MRSA Series of factsheets about the disease.
- Electronic Collection Virtual Collection of Monographs and Periodicals The evolution of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus in Canadian hospitals. 5 yrs of national surveillance. In French and English.
- MRSA Survivors Network Features survivor's stories, advocacy work, disease information, and factsheets.
- Fight Staph Infections, Inc. A personal sufferer describes her experiences and provides information about the dangers of staph infections, including MRSA, and how to prevent them.
- NHS Choices: MRSA Infection Factsheet with cause, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
- SkinSight: MRSA Signs, symptoms, and photographs of the disease.
- BBC News: Quick Guide: MRSA Concise factsheet on this disease, its transmission, the UK death rate and how the NHS is combating the infection.
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts Antibiotic Resistance and MRSA Includes information for healthcare providers, teachers, corrections professionals, coaches, athletic directors, and others.
- CDC: MRSA - Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Fact sheets for patients and healthcare personnel about MRSA. Also general information on laboratory detection as well as non-hospital healthcare settings.
- CDC: Vancomycin-Intermediate/Resistant Stapylococcus aureus Fact sheet on an antibiotic resistant strain of staph.
- CDC: MRSA in Schools Factsheet with disease information and prevention methods.
- New York State Department of Health: MRSA Factsheets, alerts and advisories, press releases, eduactional material, and resources.
- Mayo Clinic: MRSA Infection Overview of the symptoms, causes, and treatment of this virulent staph infection.
- Health Protection Agency Factsheet from the UK agency.
- JAMA: MRSA Infections Article with facts about the disease in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
- Patient UK: MRSA Factsheet on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus which causes an infection that mainly occurs in people who are already ill in hospital.
- MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: MRSA Infection Includes cause, symptoms, treatment, and prevention.
- MedlinePlus: MRSA Features news, links to related resources, articles, and research.
- Texas Department of State Health Services: MRSA Series of factsheets and presentations about the disease in several different environments.