Resistance to antimicrobials, methicillin (anti-staph penicillins): Difference between revisions

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== Additional Info ==
== Additional Info ==
*As of 2019, the way that the microbiology laboratory indicates in its reports that an organism is resistant to the antistaphlococcal penicillins (of which the architype is methicillin, hence the phrase "Methicillin-resistant staph aureus") is to specifically identify that it is resistant to oxacillin, with a comment that MRSA has been isolated.  It will NOT list any other of this class of drugs.
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