While the prevalence of VISA and VRSA remains low, concerns about vancomycin resistance and the lack of a clinical or bacteriological response with as many as 18% of MRSA isolates with a ...

To make MRSA matters even worse, in 2002, health care workers reported the first cases of vancomycin-resistant MRSA. In other words, even "last-resort" vancomycin doesn't always work. Therein lies ...

Recent worldwide emergence of CA-MRSA has prompted the development of several new antibiotics (see Table 2). In the past, as vancomycin became less effective against MRSA, clinicians turned to ...

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Vancomycin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) are critical pathogens identified by the WHO for their significant drug resistance.