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MRSA is spread by contact. So, you could get MRSA by touching another person who has it on the skin. Or you could get it by touching objects that have the bacteria on them. MRSA is carried by about 2% of the population (or 2 in 100 people), although most of them aren't infected.
MRSA have many virulence factors that enable them to cause disease in normal hosts. For example, MRSA are frequent causes of healthcare-associated bloodstream and catheter-related infections. MRSA are also an emerging cause of community-associated infections, especially skin and soft tissue infections and necrotizing pneumonia. Limited treatment options. Vancomycin and two newer antimicrobial agents, linezolid and daptomycin, are among the drugs that are used for treatment of severe healthcare-associated MRSA infections.