Sunday, 22 December 2013

Skin bacteria helped MRSA strain gain dominance

Scientists believe they have an explanation for how the most common strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) rapidly rose to prominence. Research published in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, suggests that the strain recently acquired a number of genes from common skin bacteria that allow it to grow and thrive on the skin where other strains of MRSA cannot."Over the past 15 years, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus has become a major public health problem. via Health News from Medical News Today Read More Here..


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