With frightening speed, certain microbes evolve defenses against every antibiotic we throw at them. Staph aureus is a sobering case in point.

As with penicillin, only a year passed after this semi-synthetic penicillin was released before methicillin-resistant Staph aureus (MRSA) was reported. Initially, MRSA only appeared in hospitals ...

Any one of those mutations could give your staph infection the capacity to continue replicating, even in the presence of the antibiotic. All it takes is a single mutated S. aureus—one that ...

Considering taking supplements to treat methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus mrsa? Below is a list of common natural remedies used to treat or reduce the symptoms of methicillin resistant ...

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 149, No. 4 (Apr., 1984), pp. 538-543 (6 pages) A caseinase- and bound coagulase-negative mutant was isolated from Staphylococcus aureus BB by treatment with ...

A newly developed laboratory tool can, within hours, help to identify specific viruses which can be used to destroy variants of the dangerous pathogenic bacteria Staphylococcus aureus. Viruses of ...