But about 60 to 70 percent of staph in U.S. hospitals has developed resistance to methicillin.
The most notorious of these is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a bug that infects wounds and has become rife in hospitals.
One nasty bug inhabiting American hospitals, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, is linked to 18, 650 deaths each year, a 2007 study concluded.
Jim Hedrick, a materials scientist with IBM Research, never really set out to tackle the MRSA (methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus) problem.
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They have a very different weapon, something that politicians find as scary as methicillin-resistant staph: the "conflict of interest" charge.
It was only a few years ago that MRSA - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - was a major threat in UK hospitals.
She was infected with Methicillin Resistant Staphyloccocus Aureus - MRSA - one of the so-called "super bugs" which are highly resistant to treatment.
In the early 1960s a penicillin sibling was introduced, methicillin.
Experts say Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, a form of staph resistant to common antibiotics, has become a more prevalent problem in settings such as contact sports that involve skin-to-skin touching.
The bugs in question run the gamut from fungi, which cause ailments such as athlete's foot, to viruses that cause herpes or a potentially deadly infection known as MRSA, or methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus.
One of the sequenced strains is Methicillin-resistant (MRSA).
He also advises asking for proof of a tuberculosis screening within the past year, as well as a recent test for community-associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA), which can be transmitted by skin-to-skin contact and cause painful skin infections and boils.
Personal touchscreen devices aren't as bad as the self-checkout screens in grocery stores, but he knows of rare cases where people contracted a serious skin disease called Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, from sharing a cell phone with bacteria on it.
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