What Is MRSA?

Monday, October 14, 2013 - 17:00 in Health & Medicine

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is a strain of staph bacteria that is resistant to the antibiotics normally used to treat such infections. In 1961, British scientists discovered MRSA; it was first seen in the U.S. in 1968,

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