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My 35 yo hubby has a skin staph infctn over a year. 4-5 antibiotic rounds & has been sick all year! this yr he catches every bug an they hang on.help?

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Dr. John Fung answered

Specializes in General Surgery

See ID specialist: There may be several reasons that the staph infection returns - 1) that the bacteria is resistant to the antibiotics given (particularly true with methicillin resistant staph aureus - also known as mrsa); 2) that there is an underlying site or foreign body that is causing the infection to return after antibiotics are done; or 3) have an underlying immune defect (for example, job syndrome).

Answered 10/1/2013

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