However, if the bacteria enter the skin or bloodstream through cuts or open wounds, you may develop an infection. Staphylococcus bacteria are contagious and can spread between people by touching ...

Maybe the wound is starting to ooze a bit ... Any one of those mutations could give your staph infection the capacity to continue replicating, even in the presence of the antibiotic.

This image shows a wound on the skin of a mouse during the healing process. The wound is the dark hole in the middle of the image (1). The immune cells are blue (2), and a kind of common skin ...

Horiuchi A, Nakayama Y, Kajiyama M et al.: Nasopharyngeal decolonization of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus can reduce PEG peristomal wound infection. Am J Gastroenterol 2006 ...