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Symptoms of MRSA

Staphylococcus aureus is quite common: around 30% of people carry the germ in their nose or on their skin (this is often referred to as being ‘colonised’ with the germ). SA and MRSA are not normally a risk to healthy people and the majority of people colonised with SA do not have any symptoms and aren’t aware they are carrying the germ.

For people who do become infected with MRSA, symptoms can include the following:

• boils and abscesses in any part of the body,
• impetigo (an infectious skin disease),
• septic wounds,
• heart-valve infections,
• food poisoning and
• toxic shock syndrome.

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