- Jun 9, 2014
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I hate to be technical here but MRSA doesn't LOOK like anything, unless you happen to be looking at it under a microscope and with certain dyes. You have a small infection. That's really all you can tell. You said you were laying in the sand so they said probably a bite. If you said you'd been at the athletic club and sitting on nasty benches in the locker room,they would have said probably staph. If you said you were secret service banging hookers in Colombia... the diagnosis changes. But it's an educated guess. That's all. At least until the lab culture and sensitivity comes back in a day or two, if they did one.