Options for combating multi-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

OPTIONS FOR COMBATING MULTI-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS
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(11, September, 2010)
Options for Combating Multi-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus
Abstract
It has been noted with concern by researchers, clinicians and medics that powerful bacteria are comfortably not responding to the current available antibiotics. This poses a significant threat to public health to all human races. infections linked to antibiotic resistance has tremendously increased over the years being difficult to treat, costing billion of dollars per year and causing more death than any other diseases.
Staphylococcus aureus is a pathogen within the community and hospital believed to have peacefully coexisted with mankind for years can cause a range of illnesses from minor skin infections for instance pimples, boils to more lethal ones such as meningitis and pneumonia. S. aureus have become resistant to methicilin as well as other β-lactam antibiotics via expression of a foreign body PBP. This bacteria is also resistant to other antibiotics, hence making treatment limited and narrow.
This paper establishes a number of options to combat multi-resistant Staphylococcus aureus which include developing new, ‘mutation busting’, developing new drug, stop usage of a drug then reintroduce it when resistance has fallen, carry more research on resistance mechanisms as screening followed by isolation, surface sanitizing, thorough hand washing, essential oil diffusion, decolonization, education and training, and proper disposal of hospital gowns.
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Abstract  PAGEREF _Toc272839247 \h
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Introduction  PAGEREF _Toc272839248 \h
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Literature Review  PAGEREF _Toc272839249 \h
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History of the bacteria  PAGEREF _Toc272839250 \h
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Sub-categories of MRSA  PAGEREF _Toc272839251 \h
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MRSA Strains  PAGEREF _Toc272839252 \h
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Spread of MRSA  PAGEREF _Toc272839253 \h
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Statistic on MRSA problem  PAGEREF _Toc272839254 \h
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Antibiotic Resistance (S. aureus)  PAGEREF _Toc272839255 \h
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Consequences of antibiotic resistance  PAGEREF _Toc272839256 \h
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Multi-drug Resistance Saureus  PAGEREF _Toc272839257 \h
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Mechanism of MRSA resistance  PAGEREF _Toc272839258 \h
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Possible ways of arresting the menace  PAGEREF _Toc272839259 \h
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Scientific options  PAGEREF _Toc272839260 \h
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