Staph Infection Treatment
In the early 1940's penicillin medicine was used as an antibiotic in the treatment of various staphi nfections. However nearly a decade later almost half of all staph infection causing bacteria became resistant to the drug. As a result other antibiotics such as methicillin, cloxacillin, didoxacillin and flucloxacillin were used against bacteria that were able to resist penicillin.
However within a matter of time staph bacteria also became resistant to drugs such as methicillin and some other antibiotic needed to be used against these bacteria. This strain of bacteria came to be known as Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus(MRSA). To treat MRSA infections a much more powerful and toxic drug called Vancomycin was deployed against MRSA strains. As of 2005 though three cases of Vancomycin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (VRSA) strains have already been reported.
