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Deadly Strain Of Flesh-Eating Bacteria Doing The Rounds In Gay Areas
January 17, 2008 at 12:04 PM
Sexual Health News
MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. It was once spread chiefly in hospitals. But of late, a number of healthy people have acquired it outside hospitals.
The CDC states that nearly 19,000 people died in the United States from MRSA infections in 2005.
The symptoms of the infection include abscesses and skin ulcers. The bacteria can invade through the skin to produce something termed as necrotizing fasciitis, hence the term flesh-eating bacteria. It can also cause pneumonia and heart damage
Among gays, the study found, MRSA is spread by skin contact, causing abscesses and infection in areas like the buttocks and on the genitals.
According to author Dr. Henry F. Chambers, the new strain is resistant to many of the antibiotics used to treat the earlier strains. It has a plasmid denoted as p USA03.
“This particular clone is resistant to at least three other drugs, clindamycin, tetracycline and mupirocin,” Dr. Chambers says.
“In addition, the new strain is resistant to mupirocin, which has been advocated for eradicating the strain from carriers”, he adds.
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