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MRSA phage therapy[edit]

I suggest a new topic.Phage therapy for MRSA Phage is an extremely good way to combat MRSA as shown by the fact that, until 1991, MRSA had was low(0.2%) in Denmark.Se https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2016506/ This was attributed to the phage-type complex 83A. Phage therapy for MRSA is the subject of a patent in 2001 https://patents.google.com/patent/US20040146490A1/en although the Danish observation from 1991 is not mentioned.Spgough (talk) Spgough (talk) 16:29, 19 March 2023 (UTC)Spgough (talk)[reply]

Carriage vs infection[edit]

This article is visited a lot, but it has a rather weak entry. The section "signs and symptoms" first rightly describe Staphylococcus aureus as a commensal bacteria, permanently colonising a considerable proportion of humans. Then, it goes on to describe skin infections? There are no "signs or symptoms" to separate MRSA from other bacterial infections, the reader who finds this site should not be mislead to think "MRSA" is a disease.

The section "Risk factors" also suffer under the same lack of understanding, in my opinion. Risk factors of what? Carriage? Carriage of S. aureus or carriage of MRSA? Infections? Infections of MRSA or infections of any Gram-positive cocci? The (now slightly outdated) list of references are just more or less random articles where random groups are found statistically significant for either of the conditions I mention above. There are hundreds, if not thousands of other articles like that. The list could be endless with narrowly defined groups "at risk" for MRSA-infection-or-carriage. Wikipedia should instead focus on the concept. What is "risk" when it comes to MRSA? Why are some humans carrying S. aureus and some not, why are some of those resistant and some not, why to some of those bacteria end up invading the tissues and causing an infection?

A minor comment is that the "research" section randomly lists some different research projects. Why are those chosen and not the thousands of others? Research into novel treatments targeting resistant infections should be listed in more general articles, and not specifically in the MRSA article. The treatment against MRSA is already well known, it's choosing a different active antibiotic...

I'm new to Wikipedia and wouldn't know where to start fixing this, but with some guidance I could contribute. Epianders (talk) 07:56, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]