| Patients who become infected with MRSA are usually treated using expensive antibiotics such as vancomycin. |
| If the infant has been in the nurseries and sepsis is suspected, the antibiotic regimen should include vancomycin and gentamicin. |
| Already now in Australia we're isolating strains which have low level resistance to vancomycin. |
| In recent years, some superbugs have even figured out how to resist vancomycin. |
| A new class of drugs, oxazolidinones, is available in oral formulations that may have effectiveness comparable with vancomycin. |
| Other antibiotics like penicillin and vancomycin slow the bacteria's ability to manufacture cell walls. |
