Prescott's Microbiology
Prescott's Microbiology
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ISBN: 9781259281594
Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a group of Gram-positive bacteria that cause various difficult to cure diseases in humans. MRSA strains are resistant to broad-spectrum antibiotics like penicillin derivatives for example, oxacillin and methicillin, and cephems. MRSA strain has developed through natural selection, horizontal gene transfer, and multiple drug resistance to beta-lactam antibotics. Likewise, isolates of Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA), USA300, is considered as rapidly developing resistant strain causing epidemic in U.S.

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