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.

Antibiotics are often prescribed for patients ... with influenza followed by a bacterial infection caused by MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) —a very common cause of a ...

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 ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a type of bacteria that has developed resistance to many antibiotics, making it a significant public health concern. MRSA infections can occur ...