Threat of drug-resistant MRSA increasing

Threat of drug-resistant MRSA increasing

methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus

B. Joseph Guglielmo, Jr., PharmD, School of Pharmacy chair of the department of clinical pharmacy, comments on the last line of defense to the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterium that has now spread from hospitals to schools, gyms, homes and beyond through human-to-human contact. Guglielmo is an expert in the drug treatment of infectious diseases and creator of the UCSF Medical Center's antimicrobial management program.

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