| Orthopaedic liaison nurses swabbed all patients in the community for MRSA and methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus. |
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| Although, MRSA is a version of the common staph bacteria, it is resistant to the methicillin antibiotic, which makes it especially hard to treat. |
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| A high proportion of these bacteria demonstrate resistance to multiple antibiotic medications, especially to methicillin and oxacillin. |
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| Some antibiotics, such as gentamicin, penicillin G, tetracycline, methicillin, erythromycin, and vancomycin, are not compatible with heparin. |
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| Beta-lactam antibiotics include methicillin and other more common antibiotics such as oxacillin, penicillin and amoxicillin. |
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| This strain was resistant to methicillin, cephalothin, gentamicin, erythromycin, chloramphenicol and tetracycline. |
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| This strain of S. aureus was first isolated in the early 1960s, shortly after methicillin came into wide use as an antibiotic. |
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| Tea extract showed synergistic activity with Chloramphenicol and other antibiotics like gentamycin, methicillin and nalidixic acid against test strains. |
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| For years, the infections were treated with methicillin. |
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| How did the staphylococcus aureus become methicillin resistant? |
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| In MRSA the gene acquired through conjugation encodes a protein capable of inhibiting methicillin binding, preventing the drug from attaching to and disrupting its target protein in the bacterial cell wall. |
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