PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Rehm, Susan J.
TI  - <em>Staphylococcus aureus:</em> The new adventures of a legendary pathogen
DP  - 2008 Mar 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 177--192
VI  - 75
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/75/3/177.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/75/3/177.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2008 Mar 01; 75
AB  - Nosocomial infections with strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) began to emerge in the 1960s, are increasing in frequency, and tend to have worse outcomes than infections due to methicillin-susceptible S aureus. Community-associated MRSA infections emerged in the 1990s. Community-associated MRSA strains have up to now been epidemiologically and bacteriologically distinct from hospital-associated MRSA strains, but in a new twist, MRSA strains that have so far been only community-associated are invading the hospital. Another worrisome trend is increasing resistance to vancomycin (Vancocin).