FDA Clears First Quick Test For Drug-Resistant Staph Infections
Jan 8th 2008Drug InformationMRSA / Drug Resistance
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it has cleared for marketing the first rapid blood test for the drug-resistant staph bacterium known as MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), which can cause potentially deadly infections.Methicillin is an antibiotic that has been used successfully to treat infections from the Staphylococcus aureus bacterium.
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