Hello! Thanks so much for your input. My cellulitis was on my
butt! Not in the incision. It was within the 30 day mark though.
By looking at the online explanations on CA vs. HA, mine definitely
fits the CA by the way it presents. If I don't have an active
infection can they figure it out? It seems like none of the docs
want to admit I got it in the hospital.

I'm just hoping it is finally gone!

Lori


--- In MRSA@yahoogroups.com, jeaninethomas2000 <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Lori,
> CA-MRSA strains can be acquired in the hospital, they have re-
entered
> hospitals and in 2000 I was infected during surgery with CA-MRSA.
Your
> doctor could do a typing to determine if it is a CA-MRSA or HA-MRSA
> strain. Most CA-MRSA strains are Mec IV. But this would have
occurred
> in your wound. Not many ID doctors are MRSA literate and experts on
> it. Your doctor would have to send it to a researcher and I
believe
> there is one in Madison. I'm in Chicago and one of the top
researchers
> in the country is Dr. Robert Daum of U. of Chicago. Many ID doctors
> send him cultures and samples to be typed.
> Jeanine
> Chicago s--- In MRSA@yahoogroups.com, "lawatson17" <Lori@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all! I got my first MRSA cellulitis 3 weeks after having a c-
> > section in the hospital. Then, two months later my husband had
it.
> > Then, four months after that I was back in the hospital on IV
> > Vanomycin with folliculitis. I was finally referred to an
> Infectious
> > Disease doc and got clean cultures. Five months later, I had a
cyst
> > drained and it was positive for MRSA again. So, I guess that I
got
> it
> > in the hospital, but the way my infection presents sure seems
more
> > like community acquired. Could I have gotten CA in the hospital?
> >
> > Any advice or guidance is most appreciated.
> >
> > Lori
> > Milwaukee, WI
> >
>