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According to the Mayo Clinics website Vancomycin is a common drug used to treat MRSA. There are different strains of MRSA. Your doctor would choose the antibiotic that has been most effective to treat the specific strain.

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vancomycin, is the main one and might be the only one.

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mupirocin

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