The irony is that methicillin, a chemically modified version of penicillin, was developed in the 1950s as an alternative treatment for the growing proportion of staph infections already resistant ...

Methicillin-resistant S ... aureus, have been recently developed. Novel antibiotics, such as linezolid, daptomycin and tigecycline, have been successfully introduced into clinics.

Patients who are believed to be allergic to penicillin face an increased risk of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Clostridium difficile infections, possibly because the ...

That revealed that isolates from CC1943, including the hedgehog isolates, could be divided into lineages dating back to the early to late 1800s—long before the introduction of penicillin in 1942 and ...

New antibiotics, such as tetracycline, erythromycin, and methicillin were developed, and there was new hope that infectious diseases could be vanquished. But, once again, problems of bacterial ...

MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, but is shorthand for any strain of Staphylococcus bacteria which is resistant to one or more conventional antibiotics. Staphylococcus is a ...

What is an MRSA infection? MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Patients with MRSA are infected with a strain of Staph aureus bacteria resistant to antibiotics known as ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) is a type of staph bacteria that is resistant to certain antibiotics called beta-lactams. These antibiotics include methicillin and other more common ...