Male: We thought we never have to worry about staph orius and as a multiple resistant staph orius and a child was reported in Texas just died from it. How can that be?
Dr. Shelov: Well unfortunately, MRSAs has actually been around for quite a while. There are a number of actual number of communities in Texas where the portion of resistant organisms or MRSA in a community are over 60%. So this is not a new phenomenon. Not only is it not a new phenomenon but we also know that yes it is in hospitals but it is more important that it is in the community. So that many of the staff that comes into the hospitals, actually coming from the community and not a result of being developed in the hospital itself, so it is a mixture.
Male: But the word multiple resistant, what does that mean, resistance?
Dr. Shelov: Well, normally in the very beginning, staph was very sensitive to penicillin. It then became resistant to penicillin. We developed a more sophisticated type of penicillin that would be effective against it. Now we are finding that even though the more sophisticated penicillins are not effective as effective as they were against this particular staph. So it is very, very serious. We do have antibiotics to treat it. They are just not the usual kind. We have to sort of step it up to a more sophisticated type of antibiotic. The concern is that the next step of resistance could be resistant to everything we have and then we are in very deep trouble. So it is a very important worry on the horizon for all of us. But it has been here for a while. This is unfortunately not new.
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