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Staphylococcus aureus |
-bacteria commonly found on the skin - some strange can cause disease and were treated with penicillin until it no longer respond to the drug - methicillin was used to treat Staphylococcus aureus until it to stopped working - the methicillin resistant bacteria was then called mRsa or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - it is now responsible for several difficult to treat infections |
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How DNA research relates to MRSA |
DNA is injected into the cells and spreads bacteria b/c DNA needs to be in the cell to be dangerous, it also carries the information |
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How MRSA relates to antibiotics killing other bacteria but the resistance kept replicating? |
MRSA is a resistant and a superbug but MSSA kept dying because we kept in playing towards the antibiotics and it wasn't resistant to the antibiotics |
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How MRSA becomes a resistant |
The MECA gene had a mutation at the 21st base leading in PBP2a causing resistance |
