May 31st, 2009 How long can MRSA live outside the body?
MRSA was first noted in 1961, about two years after the antibiotic methicillin was initially used to treat S. The resistance to methicillin was due to a penicillin -binding protein coded for by a mobile genetic element termed the methicillin resistant gene (mecA). MRSA usually show resistance to many antibiotics . MRSA acquired in the [...]
