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What is methicillin used for?

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Where did staphyolococcus begin?

the shorter word or term for staphyolococcus is (mrsa) In the late fifties the antibiotic methicillin was introduced to combat the penicillin resistant strains of the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus. Within a couple of years methicilin resistant strains had emerged just about everywhere methicillin was being used. The methicillin resistant varieties were possibly a direct response to methicillin (my favoured theory) or a chance hybridisation with a distantly related bacteria that already contained the methicillin resistant gene. Nobody knows for sure.


What was the main mechanism by which methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus gained ascendancy over methicillin?

By alteration of the drug's target site


How do you get merca?

MRSA is Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, since staph infections are often treated with methicillin the bacteria evolves and builds and immunity to it.


What is the medical term msra?

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus Aureus


What is the real term for MRSA?

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusORmultidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureusSource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrsa


What is the MRSA microbe scientific name?

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus


What has the author Manal M Baddour written?

Manal M. Baddour has written: 'MRSA (methicillin resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) infections and treatment' -- subject(s): Staphylococcus aureus infections, Methicillin resistance


What medicine is used to heal mercer?

I believe you're referring to MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus). The treatment is a round or two of Vancomycin (a very strong antibiotic).


How can methicillin resistant Staph aureus MRSA be treated?

Usually it can be treated with antibiotics.


What dose MRSA stand for?

MRSA is metycilin resistent staphylococcus aureus, meaning that the bacteria SA is resistant to the antibiotic metycilin(I think I wrote the name correct) MRSA is Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus . It is a bacterial infection caused by a strain of Staph aureus which are resistant to most antibiotics and thus difficult to eradicate. It emerged in 1961 after Methicillin was used to treat this infection. It is now one of the most common Hospital acquired infections.


What medications can cause decreased iron levels?

ACTH, colchicine, deferoxamine, methicillin, and testosterone.


How can heavy growth of staphylococcus aureus be treated?

There are several ways that heavy growth of staphylococcus aureus can be treated. Some medicines used are methicillin, nafcillin, oxacillin, cloxacillin, dicloxacillin, and flucloxacillin.