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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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