A story from the joint meeting of the American Society for Microbiology and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. (Just a couple of snips in case of copywrite issues)
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A CDC study found that at least 10 percent of cases involving the most common community strain were able to evade the antibiotics typically used to treat them.
MRSA usually is resistant only to penicillin-type drugs. But 10 percent of the 824 samples checked also could evade clindamycin, tetracycline, Bactrim or other antibiotics.
Even more worrisome: many of these community strains had features allowing them to easily swap genes and become even hardier.
http://www.physorg.com/news144351703.html
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A CDC study found that at least 10 percent of cases involving the most common community strain were able to evade the antibiotics typically used to treat them.
MRSA usually is resistant only to penicillin-type drugs. But 10 percent of the 824 samples checked also could evade clindamycin, tetracycline, Bactrim or other antibiotics.
Even more worrisome: many of these community strains had features allowing them to easily swap genes and become even hardier.
http://www.physorg.com/news144351703.html