Therapies and Vaccines for Emerging Bacterial Infections: Learning from Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus  

Oleh:

John, Chandy C. ; Schreiber, John R.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Pediatric Clinics of North America vol. 53 no. 4 (Aug. 2006), page 699.

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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an emerging bacterial infection worldwide, and community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) infection, which has increased dramatically in frequency in many areas, is of particular clinical and public health concern. CA-MRSA outbreaks and severe infections have been reported more frequently in chlidren, often manifesting in one of two distint clinical syndromes, furunculosis or necrotizing pneumonia. This article outlines the molecular biology of MRSA, how molecular biology has contributed to the understanding of MRSA infections, current therapy and prevention of MRSA and the prospects for a vaccine againts S aureus.

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