MRSA is also sometimes resistant to antibiotics establish in over-the-counter ointments like Neosporin and Polysporin the study is published in Emerging Infectious Diseases it suggest that these ointments can be one of the factors behind the spread of an especially severe MRSA strain, called USA300, around the world.
It also means that antibiotic ointments almost certainly wouldn't treat or prevent MRSA skin infection, though experts say they've never been recommended for that reason a spokeswoman for the drug company that makes Neosporin and Polysporin says the study doesn't show a link between the ointments and MRSA resistance to antibiotics.
MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus the best part of MRSA infections are picked up in hospitals but they are becoming more general in the community MRSA bacteria are spread through skin-to-skin contact and often strike people who are prone to cuts and scrapes like children and athletes the infection may first be mistaken for a pimple excluding they can quickly worsen into deep pus-filled sores such infections, if not on time treated, can spread to the blood, lungs, and other organs and can become life-threatening.
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