Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology (Mar 2024)

Prominent Classes of Antibiotics and their Mechanism of Resistance against Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

  • Shweta Sharma,
  • Manik Sharma,
  • Ajay Kumar,
  • Amit Vashisht,
  • Moyad Shahwan,
  • Hardeep Singh Tuli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.22207/JPAM.18.1.56
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 1
pp. 144 – 167

Abstract

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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a prominent pathogenic, antibiotic-resistant microorganism that contains a variety of virulent characteristics having the capacity to develop tolerance to several major classes of antibiotics. The ongoing creation of clones enhances this potential, transforming S. aureus into an “Anti-Infective.” MRSA has started to rise as a Hospital-Acquired MRSA, but due to evolution, new strains of MRSA have been discovered throughout the past several years. The new strains of MRSA as Community-Acquired MRSA, and Livestock-Associated MRSA are infecting the patients despite preexisting medical conditions, being as susceptible to any treatment. The continuous expansion of MRSA is still ongoing. The main goal of this article is to improve reading comprehension of MRSA by studying the prominent classes of antibiotics and their mechanism of resistance which are now susceptible or getting susceptible to the MRSA.

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