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How does staphylococcus turn into mrsa?

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Dr. Gerald Mandell answered

Specializes in Nuclear Medicine

Resistance to drugs: Some believe over usage of antibiotics by general population with staph becoming resistant. MRSA stands for methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus. First discovered in 1961 now resistant to methicillin, amoxicillin, penicillin, oxacillin, and many other antibiotics.Sometimes difficult to treat.

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Answered 2/21/2015

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