Health care professionals then send encrypted data about the patients to the clinical data registry through a highly secure web portal or from their electronic health record. As data enters the clinical data registry, quality checks are performed to ensure the correctness and completeness of the data.
90 days or 3 months: It depends on the host's immune system, interaction with other bacteria and environmental circumstances, exposure to antibiotics but generally MRSA can live up to 90 days or 3 months.
Data are sparse on the on recurrence of MRSA infections. The recurrence rate of MRSA infection in mild cases is thought to be very low, but some investigators report that patients may be carriers for up to 30 months, so it is possible for a carrier to have a contagious period for this length of time.