Talk:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
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[edit] External link/Ad
Moved this external link/ad to Talk. If we can contextualize it better, I persoanlly have no problem with putting it back in the article. -- FEB 25, 2006 Tea tree oil verses MRSA —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.51.235.44 (talk • contribs) 07:27, 25 February 2006
[edit] Altering Wording/Suggesting Removal
Scientists estimate that around 2 billion people, some 25-30 percent of the world's population, have a form of the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. [5] [6]
this is the second sentence under the epidemiology section
Link 6 is dead, I tried it multiple times. Link 5 states "It is estimated that 25% to 30% of people have the staph bacteria either on their skin or in their nose" it does not state that these staph bacteria are staphylococcus aureus. I am changing "Staphylococcus aureus bacteria" to "staph bacteria" and leaving it in as a courtesy to whomever wrote it, but I am recommending that this sentence be removed from the article as it will now be talking about staphylococcus in general and as such is not pertinent to this article which is focusing on the more specific Staphylococcus Aureus. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.67.205.176 (talk • contribs) 22:09, 5 September 2006
[edit] Paradoxical?
Aren't gram-positive bacteria supposed to be easier to treat than their opposite, gram-negative?
DarkestMoonlight (talk) 14:36, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
- Well, for example, anthrax is gram-positive, and ordinary E. coli is gram-negative. People may be prone to make generalizations because the gram negative bacterium uses lipopolysaccharide or has an "extra" membrane, but in truth the difference between safe and troublesome (for example enteropathogenic E. coli) is rather small and much more recent than these ancient structural differences. In the case of MRSA the part that is so troublesome is really just a few specific genes that let it neutralize antibiotics. Wnt (talk) 06:41, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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- Gram-positive and -negative refer to staining characteristics of the bacteria using Gram's stain. That is, it's a tool to categorize and diagnose bacterial diseases. There is not a direct correlation between Gram-staining characteristics and virulence in humans. Either Gram-positive or Gram-negative bacteria can be harmless, pathogenic but treatable, or deadly. Gram-positives include Staph and strep (and all their subtypes of varying virulence), not to mention the bacteria responsible for anthrax, botulism, tetanus, and listerosis as well as acne, and many of the bacteria which live harmlessly in your mouth. It's a pretty diverse and broad category. MastCell Talk 22:31, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Should we archive?
This has thirty-three topics including this one.
Lunakeet 14:12, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
- Yes - Unless consensus against, can I suggest we set up a Wikipedia:Archive#Automated archival (my preference is for User:MiszaBot/Archive HowTo#Example 2 - incremental archives) with say archiving after 1 month of thread inactivity ? Below is the coding to use and generation of an Archive box.
{{User:MiszaBot/config
|algo = old(30d)
|archive = Talk:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus/Archive %(counter)d
|counter = 1
|maxarchivesize = 250K
}}
{{archivebox|auto=yes}}
David Ruben Talk 21:59, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
I agree, that sounds like a good idea.
Lunakeet 17:31, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
- Ok, so added to top of this talk page. Now just sit back and wait - I hope :-) David Ruben Talk 00:53, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Useless information supposed to drive my imagination (detergents and useless facts needing a new home)
Who put the data dump of uselss statistics into the Prevention section? Can we put the statistics that are not a product of referenced reseach into it's own catagory? It waters down the preventiona and treatment section which should have brevity and accuracy as a goal. At risk populations, in a word - you!
As for detergents, they are used to desolve, surround and disperse lipids-based soils. Sanitizers kill pathogens. Not all sanitizers are not detergents and not all detergents contain sanitizers. Alcohol is a sanitizer but not a detergent, Peroxide is a sanitizer but not a detergent. Many soaps kills germs but are not hospital grade sanitizers. MRSA requires a sanitizer or disinfectant product with an EPA registration number that documents that it has been tested for a 5-log kill in five minutes vs. MRSA. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Faust921 (talk • contribs) 21:43, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
