community-associated MRSA

bacterium
Also known as: CA-MRSA

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MRSA

  • In MRSA: Incidence and types

    …known as community associated (CA-MRSA) and health care associated (HA-MRSA), both of which can be transmitted via skin contact. CA-MRSA affects healthy individuals—people who have not been hospitalized for a year or longer—and can cause soft-tissue infections, such as skin boils and abscesses, as well as severe pneumonia, sepsis…

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