MRSA Staphylococcal Bacterial Infectious Diseases
Fact sheets for patients and healthcare personnel about MRSA. Also general information on laboratory detection as well as non-hospital healthcare settings.
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- Readers Digest: Deadly Superbugs - News article about the rise in CA-MRSA cases.
- MRSA Survivors Network - Features survivor\'s stories, advocacy work, disease information, and bacterial factsheets.
- Living with MRSA - Includes factsheet with illustrations from the Tacoma-Pierce County, mrsa Washington Health mrsa Department.[PDF]
- Texas Department of State Health Services: MRSA - Series of factsheets and presentations about the disease bacterial in several different environments.
- NIAID, NIH: Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus - Includes symptoms, cause, news, research, transmission, treatment, and staphylococcal prevention.
- MRSA Resources - Produced by survivors of the disease. Includes personal stories, forum, mrsa links, disease information, and factsheets.
- Minnesota Dept. of Health: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - Disease statistics and basics, plus information for schools, bacterial health professionals, staphylococcal correctional facilities, and athletic programs.
- CDC: MRSA - Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus - Fact sheets for patients and healthcare personnel about mrsa MRSA. Also general information on laboratory detection as mrsa well as non-hospital healthcare settings.
- MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: MRSA Infection - Includes cause, symptoms, treatment, and prevention.
- CDC: MRSA in Schools - Factsheet with disease information and prevention methods.
- MRSA Watch - Features news, disease information, and links to related resources.
- CDC: Vancomycin-Intermediate/Resistant Stapylococcus aureus - Fact sheet on an antibiotic resistant strain of staph.
- Johns Hopkins Medical: Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) - Factsheet about the disease with disease information and bacterial epidemiology.
- Rhoda’s MRSA Story - Features a weblog containing information and news about MRSA and mrsa CA MRSA, written by the mother of a victim.
- CBC News In Depth: Hospital infections - Information about MRSA, VRE and ESBL bacteria from bacterial the Canadian broadcast company.
- DermNet NZ: MRSA - Facts about the disease from the New Zealand Dermatological Society.
- Health Protection Agency - Factsheet from the UK agency.[PDF]
- Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services: MRSA - Outbreak prevention, risk factors, and handling MRSA carriers.
- MRSA and Families Network - Irish organization. Includes contacts, links, disease information, and mrsa news.
- New York State Department of Health: MRSA - Factsheets, alerts and advisories, press releases, eduactional material, and resources.
- Wikipedia: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - Encyclopedia article with history, symptoms and signs, treatment, and prevention.
- Electronic Collection Virtual Collection of Monographs and Periodicals - The evolution of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus in Canadian hospitals. 5 staphylococcal yrs of national surveillance. In French and English.[PDF]
- Medscape: Questions About MRSA and Answers From the Experts - Includes factsheet with photographs.
- VisualDxHealth: MRSA - Signs, symptoms, and photographs of the disease.
- NHS Direct: MRSA - Factsheet with cause, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
- MRSA Action UK - Organization with the purpose to raise public awareness mrsa about the bacterial disease and influence the government and mrsa healthcare sectors. Includes news, bacterial forum, weblog, newsletter, memorials, mrsa and disease information.
- CDC/NIOSH: MRSA and the Workplace - Factsheet with prevention measures and disease information.
- North Carolina Public Health: What is Community-Associated MRSA - Series of factsheets about the disease.
- Mayo Clinic: MRSA Infection - Overview of the symptoms, causes, and treatment of this virulent staph infection.
- MedlinePlus: MRSA - Features news, links to related resources, articles, and research.
- BBC Action Network: MRSA: - Answers frequently asked questions about the disease.
- JAMA: MRSA Infections - Article with facts about the disease in the staphylococcal Journal of mrsa the American Medical Association.
- Massachusetts Bureau of Communicable Disease Control: Antibiotic Resistance Web Site - Provides information about antibiotic resistance as well as specific bacteria staphylococcal that have developed antibiotic resistance.
- Guidelines for the Control of MRSA - Full version provided online by The Association for mrsa Professionals in mrsa Infection Control and Epidemiology.
- MRSA Notes - Weblog with recent news about the disease and outbreaks.
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts MRSA Infection Control Guidelines - Guidelines for long term care facilities with suggestions that apply to all at risk places.[PDF]
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