Anti-Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus [Clone NYR-MRSA] (15715-GRP)

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) survives treatment with broad-spectrum beta-lactam antibiotics including penicillin, methicillin, and cephalosporins. Previously, most MRSA infections occurred in hospitals or other health care settings, such as nursing homes and dialysis centers and were known as “health care-associated MRSA” or HA-MRSA. Older adults and people with weakened immune systems were most at risk of contracting HA-MRSA. More recently, another type of MRSA has occurred among otherwise healthy people in the wider community. This form, “community-associated MRSA”, or CA-MRSA, causes serious skin and soft tissue infections and a potentially lethal form of pneumonia.