Prevalence and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Wound Infections in a Tertiary Care Hospital
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The pathogen has been found to cause a plethora of diseases such as blood stream infections, skin and soft tissue infections, pneumonia and hospital acquired postoperative wound infections [2]. Though the diseases are treatable by the usage of antibiotics, emergence of multi drug resistant strains have been reported worldwide, thereby complicating the treatment of infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus [3]. Ever since its evolution in 1961, Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) frequent causes life threatening infections and poses a threat for modern antimicrobial therapy [4]. They cause both nosocomial (Hospital acquired MRSA) infections and community acquired infections (Community acquired MRSA).
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