Antibiotics For Mrsa Skin Infection with preview total 12+ Images. Folliculitis is a common type of mrsa skin infection often treated with oral antibiotics. The treatment of skin/soft tissue infections (sstis) largely depends on the most likely causative organisms, location of.
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When the infection is resistant to the medication, it is called resistance. Most mrsa infections occur in people who've been in hospitals or other health care settings, such as nursing homes and dialysis centers. Empiric antibiotic coverage for mrsa may be warranted in addition to incision and drainage based on clinical assessment (e.g., presence of systemic symptoms, severe local symptoms, immune suppression, extremes of patient age, infections in a difficult to drain area, or lack of response to incision and drainage alone). Oral antibiotics have been used in the outpatient setting for less severe mrsa infections such as skin and soft tissue infections (sstis), but their efficacy has not been well studied.
