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Methicillin is an antibiotic that is used to treat bacterial infections caused by organisms that are resistant to other antibiotics, such as penicillin. It is part of the penicillin class of antibiotics and is mainly used to treat staphylococcal infections.

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

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) gained ascendancy over methicillin-sensitive strains mainly due to the acquisition of the mecA gene, which encodes for a modified penicillin-binding protein that has low affinity for β-lactam antibiotics. This modification allows MRSA to survive and replicate in the presence of methicillin and other β-lactam antibiotics, leading to its dominance in healthcare settings.


What pathogen causes mrsa?

MRSA is not a disease, it stands for "Methicilin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus", so it's a strain of S.aureus.


Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus gram stain?

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) appears as purple clusters under a Gram stain, indicating that it is a Gram-positive bacterium. MRSA is a type of Staphylococcus aureus that has developed resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics, such as methicillin. Identifying MRSA in clinical samples through Gram staining helps in guiding appropriate treatment strategies.


What is mutant isolation?

Mutant isolation refers to the process of selecting out individual organisms (plant, animal, or microbial) depending upon genetic mutations. For example, staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium, is normally susceptible to a penicillin-derivative called methicillin. If you take a culture of s. aureus growing in a liquid medium, and slowly started adding increasing doses of methicillin, you will gradually kill off the normal s. aureus and leave behind those which have mutated in such a way as to be resistant to the antibiotic.


The effect of ampicillin chloramphenicol erythromycin methicillin penicillin streptomycin sulphafurazole tetracycline on staphylococcus albus pseudomonas fluorescents micrococcus luteus baci?

Ampicillin, erythromycin, penicillin, and methicillin are effective against Staphylococcus albus but not against Pseudomonas fluorescens. Chloramphenicol, erythromycin, and streptomycin are effective against Pseudomonas fluorescens. Chloramphenicol and erythromycin are effective against Micrococcus luteus. Tetracycline is effective against Bacillus sp., including Bacillus subtilis. Sulphafurazole is effective against many gram-negative bacteria, including Pseudomonas fluorescens.

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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.


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

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) gained ascendancy over methicillin-sensitive strains mainly due to the acquisition of the mecA gene, which encodes for a modified penicillin-binding protein that has low affinity for β-lactam antibiotics. This modification allows MRSA to survive and replicate in the presence of methicillin and other β-lactam antibiotics, leading to its dominance in healthcare settings.


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.


What pathogen causes mrsa?

MRSA is not a disease, it stands for "Methicilin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus", so it's a strain of S.aureus.