The place of sport in spreading MRSA (mersa infection) is twofold. Sport often creates the small cuts that allow the drug resistant bacteria to flourish inside a wound. The bacteria may have colonised the person in many other contexts but the wound allows the bacteria to move from benign to active. The culture of the changing room with shared facilities, casual use of others towels, skin to surface contact can also make sporting facilities an infection 'hotspot'.
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