What is the difference between MRSA infection that you can get in a hospital and what doctors are saying you can get at home. Are they two different bugs?
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, used to be only found in hospitals or clinics. It has, however, been spreading and is now in the community. As a result, people can develop an MRSA-caused infection outside of the hospital. Doctors differentiate between MRSA from inside the hospital and outside to help keep track of where the infection comes from and how it's treated. MRSA in the community also affects a different population than from the hospital. HA-MRSA (hospital-acqured MRSA) generally affects people who are already ill and/or have low resistance to developing infections. CA-MRSA (community-acquired MRSA), on the other hand, affects many healthy people who may have cut or scraped themselves and become contaminated that way.
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