MRSA Study Suggests Strategy Shift Needed To Develop Effective Therapeutics
Sunday, March 22, 2009 - 22:28
in Health & Medicine
USA300 -- the major epidemic strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) causing severe infections in the United States during the past decade -- inherits its destructiveness directly from a forefather strain of the bacterium called USA500 rather than randomly acquiring harmful genes from other MRSA strains.