MRSA Infection Control: Way More Than Just a Skin Infection Beth and Brooke’s nightmare started with a small sty in six-year-old Brooke’s left eye. The next day while Beth, Brooke’s mom, was combing Brooke’s hair after a bath, Beth noticed a tiny black pinhole-like mark on Brooke’s upper left arm. “What happened to your arm, […]
What is MRSA Infection and How Fearful of It Should We Be? The MRSA Infection: It’s a bacterium. Most bacteria, which are single-cell organisms and the earliest form of life that existed on Earth, perform essential and useful functions, like helping us digest food and “recycling” or breaking down dead organic material for reuse. There […]
When you’re admitted to a hospital, you expect to receive tests and treatments that will make you feel better. When you get antibiotics in the hospital, you expect that the drugs will treat or prevent infection. But it doesn’t always work that way. A distressing number of patients actually acquire infections while they are in […]
During the past four decades, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, has evolved from a controllable nuisance into a serious public health concern. MRSA is largely a hospital-acquired infection, in fact, one of the most common. Recently, however, new strains have emerged in the community that are capable of causing severe infections in otherwise healthy people. […]
Call The Professionals at ABT When an accident or trauma has occurred at a home, industrial site, or traffic scene a professional cleaning service is crucial. Advanced Bio Treatment has the experience in all types of trauma and accident scenes and have the equipment and trained professional staff available at all times to deal with […]