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This website is a companion to the leading MRSA website MRSA Watch which has had over 3 million page views to date.

MRSA Infection is the work of Dave Roberts. Dave is an independent researcher whose main research can be found at what some people call the staff infection web site . This web site you are visiting responds to the questions asked by visitors to MRSA Watch over the last five years. Dave is more widely read than most doctors on this subject. He is not medically qualified however and will tell you honestly if he doesn’t know or believes you need expert medical opinion.

MRSA Infection is sometimes called MRSA Virus or the MRSA Superbug, but it is actually a bacteria. Viruses need a host. Bacteria can survive on many surfaces for several weeks

The following terms are some times used to refer to MRSA and the links here will take you to more detail – mrsa staff, mersa, mursa, merced, mursas, mrca, mersha, mercsa, mersca, staph infection, mrsa virus, mersa infection, mersa bacteria, mersa virus, mrsa staph, myrsa, merca, staf infection, mercer infection, staff mrsa, mersa disease, , msra, or  mrsa disease.  Staph, staph aureus and staph infection are also used but there are many types of staphylococcus infection and varying degrees of drug resistance so MRSA strictly speaking refers to a drug resistant strain known  as methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus . Other common phrases include mrsa infection, infection mrsa.

The most widely used MRSA drug is vancomycin.  Infections are increasingly becoming resistant to it which is leading to what is known as VRSA