This image shows a MRSA bacterium being engulfed by a neutrophil, a kind of white blood cell that’s an essential component of the immune system. The bacteria (1) are yellow and the neutrophil (2) is ...

MRSA is a super bacteria that can cause serious infections which are resistant to antibiotic treatments. The superbug is particularly prevalent in hospitals because patients often have an entry ...

The only oral MRSA therapy currently available is linezolid ... a family of multi-protein complexes that span the bacterial cell membranes and act like bilge pumps that flush antibiotics out ...

Moreover, when that mutant cell replicates ... all because of a very low mutation rate. Bacterial resistance to antibiotics and other drugs is inevitable, and MRSA is just one example of why ...

Many people carry MRSA harmlessly on their skin or inside their noses. However, if the bacteria penetrates the skin, it can cause a serious infection MRSA may enter the body via a break in the ...

Staphylococcus aureus strains resistant to the antibiotic methicillin (MRSA for short) are particularly feared in hospitals ... Phages are a class of viruses that attack bacteria, use them as host ...

Public health officials are concerned that we could move back into a situation like that of the early 20th century, before antibiotics were discovered.

Bacteria, such as MRSA, have mesh like cell walls around them that require enzymes to knit them together. The enzymes are the targets for antibiotics such as penicillin and methicillin.

MRSA is methicillin-resistant staphylococcus ... should always complete the full course of antibiotics to ensure all bacteria are killed and none survive to mutate and form resistant strains ...

Prof Holmes added that the risk to human health from this type of MRSA was "very tiny - almost insignificant". Getty Images Don't fear the hedgehog: The animals have carried the bacteria for two ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and extended-spectrum beta-lactamase producing Enterobacteriaceae (ESBL-PE) are increasingly found in animals and humans in Finland.