I don't know about MRSA in particular, but freezing rarely kills bacteria. Most bacteria go dormant or form spores at low temperatures and spring back to life when temperatures become favorable. Some bacteria can even survive freeze-drying. I once worked in a lab that extracted bacteria from glacial core samples. Bacteria frozen more than 20,000 years ago started growing again when it was put onto agar plates at room temperature. I would suspect that MRSA would survive freezing since ordinary staph is often preserved in labs by freezing it.
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I don't know about MRSA in particular, but freezing rarely kills bacteria. Most bacteria go dormant or form spores at low temperatures and spring back to life when temperatures become favorable. Some bacteria can even survive freeze-drying. I once worked in a lab that extracted bacteria from glacial core samples. Bacteria frozen more than 20,000 years ago started growing again when it was put onto agar plates at room temperature. I would suspect that MRSA would survive freezing since ordinary staph is often preserved in labs by freezing it.
No and neither will you
No, its viability reduces at about 19 degrees F.