M.R.S.A or mersa?

[Pepper The Cat]

I am taking an informal poll - just for my own curiostiy.

Do you pronounce MRSA (part 1) as

a) M. R. S. A. ( each letter pronounced on its own)

or

b) mersa.

And (part 2)

Are you

A) Canadian

or

B) American.

The reason I ask is that I have only heard it as M.R.S.A - yet in several instance involving Americans I've heard it as mersa. So I am curious to see if this is a regional thing, a country thing, or something else altogether!

[Pepper The Cat, BSN, RN]

This made me think of the Brady Bunch....."marsa, marsa MARSA!" Sorry, OT, back to regularly scheduled programming.

Diet coke - meet monitor! LOL.

[alih713]

MERSA/American

[nursel56]

"staph" -- American. Oh wait. That was in 1979. :smackingf

[Otessa, BSN, RN]

mersa

USA

[~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN]

It is funny that I just saw this topic yesterday. I have NEVER heard it pronounced M.R.S.A and I have heard it said a lot for years, even on TV I have always heard it said as mersa

Anyway, today we had a guest speaker, it was a child with CF and her mom. The family was from WY and moved to CO, today when she talked about her daughter having this she said it as M.R.S.A saying each letter.

[mykrosphere]

m.r.s.a.

american.

i hate mersa!

[netglow, ASN, RN]

American

Mersa

[LaughingRN]

M.R.S.A Canadian :)

[mappers]

M.R.S.A American

What's the tally?

[nursel56]

It is funny that I just saw this topic yesterday. I have NEVER heard it pronounced M.R.S.A and I have heard it said a lot for years, even on TV I have always heard it said as mersa

Anyway, today we had a guest speaker, it was a child with CF and her mom. The family was from WY and moved to CO, today when she talked about her daughter having this she said it as M.R.S.A saying each letter.

hmmm. . . either synchronicity (I don't understand it either:) ) or the change in pronunciation becomes gradually more common the closer you get to Canada.

[belgarion]

Mersa

Texan

[NeoNurseTX, RN]

MRSA - American. I hear MRSA most but also hear mersa some.