What type of infection is MSSA?
Methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus, or MSSA, is a skin infection that is not resistant to certain antibiotics. MSSA normally presents as pimples, boils, abscesses or infected cuts, but also may cause pneumonia and other serious skin infections.
What is the meaning of MSSA?
MSSA stands for methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus. Staph is the shortened name for Staphylococcus (staf-uh-low-KAH-kus), a type of bacteria. MSSA is a strain of staph bacteria that responds well to medicines used to treat staph infections.
What is MSSA in blood?
MSSA Bacteremia occurs when the MSSA bacteria enter your bloodstream. This is a serious infection that has a high risk of complications and death. Once it’s in the bloodstream, the infection often spreads to other organs and tissues within the body such as the heart, lungs, or brain.
Can you have surgery if you test positive for MSSA?
The screening helps to prevent surgical site infections in people who carry the Staph germ. Even if your test is positive for Staph, it does not mean you have an infection and your surgery will not be cancelled or delayed.
Is MSSA gram positive?
Staphylococcus aureus is a gram-positive bacteria that cause a wide variety of clinical diseases. Infections caused by this pathogen are common both in community-acquired and hospital-acquired settings.
Does MSSA go away?
Getting MSSA on your skin won’t make you ill, and it may go away in a few hours, days, weeks or months without you noticing. But it could cause an infection if it gets deeper into your body. It can be difficult to prevent staph infections because many people have the bacteria on their skin.
Is MRSA the same as MSSA?
Those that are sensitive to meticillin are termed meticillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA). MRSA and MSSA only differ in their degree of antibiotic resistance: other than that there is no real difference between them. Having MSSA on your skin doesn’t cause any symptoms and doesn’t make you ill.
What is MSSA swab?
We will take a swab from your nose to see if you are carrying MSSA. This is done by placing one cotton bud into both your nostrils. This process is quick and painless. The swab will be sent to the hospital laboratory to see if the MSSA germ is present (the laboratory will only look for MSSA).