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each year than AIDS.
A 2004 study showed that patients in the United States to become the most common cause of cultured skin infections among individuals seeking medical care for these infections at emergency rooms in cities.
MRSA is thought to have caused 1,652 deaths in 2006 in UK up from 51 in 1993.
Linezolid, quinupristin/dalfopristin, daptomycin, and tigecycline are used to treat more severe infections that do not respond to glycopeptides such as vancomycin.
These new evolutions of the MRSA bacterium have been dubbed vancomycin intermediate-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VISA).
Newer drugs, such as linezolid (belonging to the newer oxazolidinones class), may be effective against both CA-MRSA and HA-MRSA.
MRSA is especially troublesome in hospital-associated (nosocomial) infections.
The organism is often sub-categorized as Community-Associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) or Health Care-Associated MRSA (HA-MRSA) although this distinction is complex.
Teicoplanin is a structural congener of vancomycin that has a similar activity spectrum but a longer half-life (t½).
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CA-MRSA has a greater spectrum of antimicrobial susceptibility, including to sulfa drugs, tetracyclines, and clindamycin.
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MRSA is often referred to in the press as a "superbug.
MRSA is by definition a strain of Staphylococcus aureus that is resistant to a large group of antibiotics called the beta-lactams, which include the penicillins...
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