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 ...

Of the 1751 eligible infants, 83% (n = 1725), 75% (n = 1566) and 71% (n = 1475) were cultured for MRSA, VRE and AR-GNR, respectively. The rate of obtaining surveillance cultures increased during ...

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

Initially, MRSA only appeared in hospitals and nursing ... more than died of AIDS that year. Vancomycin, originally derived from a soil bacterium scooped from the rain forests of Borneo ...