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Step up and start your germ-free 2016! Be on TOP OF YOUR GAME and protect yourself from skin diseases that can weigh you down. We at Matguard USA are ON YOUR TEAM in the fight against MRSA, so we’d love for you to know how to beat this threat before it hits. Particularly with contact sports, you can be an unknowing target simply through physical contact with infected persons or contaminated objects. Simply put, you can be caught unaware, and the culprit can be anywhere! You can put a stop to this and start by being informed through the article...

via News in Health For nearly a century, bacteria-fighting drugs known as antibiotics have helped to control and destroy many of the harmful bacteria that can make us sick. But in recent decades, antibiotics have been losing their punch against some types of bacteria. In fact, certain bacteria are now unbeatable with today’s medicines. Sadly, the way we’ve been using antibiotics is helping to create new drug-resistant “superbugs.” Superbugs are strains of bacteria that are resistant to several types of antibiotics. Each year these drug-resistant bacteria infect more than 2 million people nationwide and kill at least 23,000, according to...

via Allegheny County Health Department What is Community Associated Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CAMRSA)? CA-MRSA is caused by the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus. Infection with MRSA means that some antibiotics will not work against these bacteria. Many people carry Staphylococcal organisms in their nasal cavity, but do not have an active infection. Those people are called “carriers”. Most people who get an infection with CA-MRSA often think they have a spider bite because of a reddened area on the skin that may drain pus or form an abscess. How do athletes get CA-MRSA? Athletes can contract CA-MRSA by close skin to...

What is ringworm? Ringworm (also called serpigo) is an infection of the skin, characterized by a reddish to brownish raised or bumpy patch of skin that may be lighter in the center, giving the appearance of a “ring.” It can exist anywhere on the body. Depending on its location, it is also known as tinea pedis or “athlete’s foot” when on the feet, tinea cruris or “jock itch” when on the groin area, tinea corporis when on the body, where it is most commonly referred to as ringworm, or tinea capitis when on the scalp.] Contrary to its name, ringworm...

by Ed Susman Contributing Writer, MedPage Today PHILADELPHIA — Contact sports participants — particularly football players — are more than twice as likely as other athletes to be colonized with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), researchers reported here. Contact sports athletes had higher odds of being colonized with MRSA [OR 2.36; 95% CI 1.13-4.93] than athletes playing noncontact sports, said Natalia Jimenez-Truque, PhD, a research instructor at the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, Nashville. At an IDWeek press conference Jimenez said that contact sports players — defined for the study as varsity athletes engaged in football, basketball, lacrosse, and soccer — tended...