How is Staphylococcus aureus infection treated?
Infections caused by many antibiotic-sensitive varieties of Staphylococcus aureus are usually successfully treated with antibiotics such as some types of penicillin and erythromycin. Some S. aureus bacteria are resistant to the antibiotic methicillin, and they are termed methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). They tend to be more complicated to treat and require the use of other antibiotics. We are lucky in the UK that the MRSA that infect patients are usually more sensitive to antibiotics than in some other parts of the world.
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