Is there another name or a more common name for methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)?

People will often refer to it as just "mersa" so they use
a slightly different version than the acronym, but that is the only other thing that I
have heard it called.

According to the wikipedia article,
it can also be reffered to as multiple drug resistant staphylloccocus aureas or
oxacillin-resistant staphylloccocus aureas or ORSA.  But both of those are quite a
mouthful so I don't imagine that anyone runs around trying to call it by those names
unless the technical name is called for.

So I think most of
the time calling it "mersa" will get the job done.