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Parents on lookout for staph during summer camps
June 15, 2010
KTRE
By Holley Nees
LUFKIN, TX (KTRE) - With summer camps and students going off to college, health experts say parents should be on the lookout for methicillin-resistant staphorious or the MRSA strain of staph.
It starts small, but could be life-threatening if it's not treated. They see it over and over in the lab and especially in the summer.
"We do see a little bit more of it and anytime your child goes to camp, they're living in close quarters first of all where you share a lot of things," said Barbara Raines, director of infection at Memorial Hospital.
The MRSA strain of staph is more resistant to antibiotics than regular staph infections.
"A lot of times, it will first show up as just a little red mosquito bite and usually these infections get bigger and depending on the source, they can, you know they'll start draining," said Raines.
Workers in the Memorial Microbiology Lab say a lot of the cultures they test are staph and about 75 percent of those staph cultures turn out to be MRSA.
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