Drug-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Appeared in Hedgehogs in Pre-Antibiotic Era, Study Shows medicine biology science
bacteria that were enmeshed in a blue-colored, filamentous extracellular matrix, which normally binds cells together within the body’s various tissue types. Image credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. is one of the most common antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens, causing approximately 171,000 invasive infections each year in Europe alone.
This has serious implications for the treatment of severe infections and the World Health Organization now considers MRSA to be an important threat to human health.— MRSA carrying, a gene that confers methicillin resistance by producing a protein called penicillin-binding protein 2a — raising the possibility that the evolution of these bacteria was driven by natural selection in wildlife, as opposed to clinical use of antibiotics,” said Dr.
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