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- Pimples
- Red spots
- Red patches (erythema)
- Peeling or itching skin
- Crusted skin
- Ulcerated areas
- Weeping areas and pus
- Loss of fur
- Persistent skin infection (pyoderma) that doesn’t respond to treatment
- MRSA – methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
- MRSP – methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius
- MRSS – methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus schleiferi
- MDR (multiple drug resistant) infection – another name for all types of this condition
- Weak immune system
- Wounds or damaged tissue
- Recent surgery
- Frequent hospital visits
- Poor hygiene and conditions of overcrowding
- Prior infection treated with antibiotics
- Failure to properly clean pus or infected fluid before treatment
- Failure to administer the proper number of antibiotic doses
- Immune suppression drugs taken at the same time as the antibiotic
- Other drugs or foods that interfere with the antibiotic function
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