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MRSA in the NFL

Revealing video on the potential harm which Staphylococcus aureus MRSA can cause, even in superfit athletes:

Imagine what MRSA can do to an elderly or immunocompromised hospital patient.

This entry was posted on Saturday, September 15th, 2007 at 7:37 am and is filed under Antibiotics, Bacteria, Biology, Health, Medicine, Microbiology, Science, Video. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

4 Comments

  • Abid Hussain says:
    September 16, 2007 at 8:24 am

    Dear Alan,

    Here in the UK, we have had an increasing problems with MSSA expressing the PVL gene. This, as you know, is a potent leukocidin resulting in a profound leucopaenia. This was initially a problem in CA-MRSA in the USA. However, based on a gene knockout study in a mouse pneumonia model published in “Clinical Infectious Diseases”, a group demonstrated no reduction in virulence when the wild type MRSA was used. This was the only study of this kind. For more information I would suggest:

    http://jmm.sgmjournals.org/future/56.10.shtml#CASEREPORTS

    Kind Regards,

    A. Hussain

  • ajcann says:
    September 16, 2007 at 10:27 am

    Yes, thanks for pointing that out. I’ve written here about PVL before:
    http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/?s=pvl

  • darrell irvin says:
    November 12, 2007 at 10:11 pm

    alan,
    do you have any information or tapes videos on hepatitis in the nfl.
    and do you see many of the contamination conditions making hepatitis
    also easy spreaded to players as well

    sincerely,

    darrell irvin
    former bill/seahawk

  • ajcann says:
    November 13, 2007 at 9:35 am

    I don’t have any specific information re. the NFL, but in contact sports these days it is common for players with a “blood injury” to be temporarily removed from play to avoid any danger of of infection.