Essay - Mrsa the Impact of Methicillin-resistant Stapholococcus Areus on American University...

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***** Impact of Methicillin-Resistant Stapholococcus areus on American University Campuses

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Methocillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) gained public fame as the notorious "flesh eating bacteria." MRSA is serious because, unlike n*****-resistant forms ***** Staphylococcus aureus, it does not responds readily to a host of antibiotics commonly used to treat such illnesses. MRSA is continuing to evolve and to develop new resistances to antibiotics, leaving the medical commun*****y scrambling ***** develop the next line of defense against this bacteria.

***** used to be a concern that was associated with hospitals and other health care facilities. However, recent outbreaks on college campuses have led to ********** that MRSA could ********** a significant threat outside of the healthcare envir*****ment. MRSA can be controlled through some common sense actions, ***** as h*****washing. Yet, the study revealed that students are not following these simple procedures to help prevent the spread of this disease. This study utilizes ***** results of the survey to develop a plan that ***** be used by American College Campuses to help control the spread of MRSA among ***** student population.

***** I Introduction

Chapter 2: Literature Review

Chapter 3 Methodology

***** 4 Results

Chapter 5: Discussion and Conclusions

References

APPENDIX 1: Survey Questionnaire *****7

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Stapholococcus aureus was first classified by Rosenbach in 1884. Methicillin-resistant Stapholococcus areus is an islate of the bacterium Stapholococcus ***** has acquired the genes necessary to make it resist*****t to all penicillins, including methicillin and other narrow spectrum β-lactamase-resistant penicillin family ***** antibiotics (Foster, 1996). This tolerance to a wide host of antibiotics makes this ***** dangerous. MRSA is easily spread wherever people gather.

MRSA is termed a "superbug" due to its *****bility to survive a v*****riety of antibiotic attacks. It was first d*****covered in UK hospitals in 1961. S*****ce that time, it has been commonly referred ***** as originating in the hospital setting. However, *****ly MRSA has become a prev*****lent problem on American University Campuses. However, ***** spread ***** MRSA on college campuses ***** ***** created an excepti*****al amount of buzz. ***** research will explore the impact of MRSA on college students on ***** campuses. It uses a ***** to assess attitudes towards ***** ********** actions that students typically take to avoid the disease.

Background of the Problem

***** are many strains of Staphylococcus *****, all of which have their own particular characteristics and resistances. MRSA is some*****s referred to as oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (ORSA). However, there are also strains ***** Staphylococcus ***** respond to *****. They are ***** ***** as methicillin-susceptible Statphylococcus aureus (MSSA). These two distinctions are not important from a dise*****e prevention st*****ndpoint, but they are ***** from a clinical standpoint.

***** is ***** associated ***** a hospital setting. However, as outbreaks began to occur that were obviously not of a hospital origin, a new cl*****ssification system was developed. This classification system has more ***** do with disease ***** and community health than clinical treatment ***** the *****. Stapholococcus ***** arises from a ***** setting is referred to as HA-MRSA