Now, the CDC has reported the first isolation of a fully vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA). The organism was isolated in June 2002 from a vascular-catheter exit site in a 40-year ...

Initially, MRSA only appeared in hospitals and ... specialists reported the first full vancomycin-resistant strain of Staph aureus. By definition, such strains require a dose of vancomycin greater ...

aureus, you decide to go to the local health ... health care workers reported the first cases of vancomycin-resistant MRSA. In other words, even "last-resort" vancomycin doesn't always work.

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

According to the World Health Organization (WHO; Geneva), more than 95% of Staphylococcus aureus ... been at least four cases of S. aureus resistant to vancomycin—the antibiotic of last resort ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is well known as one ... decolonization procedures and their cost–effectiveness. Vancomycin is the first-choice treatment for MRSA-infected ...

But, once again, problems of bacterial resistance became evident. In 1962, the first case of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was identified. Resistance of certain bacteria to other ...

Its research and development pipeline includes early-stage antibiotic candidates that target other Gram-positive bacteria, including Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Vancomycin ...