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.
Most often, doctors diagnose staph infections by checking a tissue sample or nasal secretions for signs of the bacteria. These tests are done in a lab. However, in the time it takes the bacteria to grow â about 48 hours â people who have MRSA infections can become worse or, in the most serious cases, die.