Microbiology: A Systems Approach
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Author: Marjorie Kelly Cowan Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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MRSA represents a bacterium called “methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus”, which mainly cause skin lesions in the people who are not hospitalized. Staphylococcus aureus is included under gram-positive bacteria that appear in clusters and it develops resistance against antibiotics. Strains of these bacteria with methicillin-resistance are also discovered in healthy people.
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