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By the time Tony got sick, researchers worldwide were nervously tracking an uncommon strain of MRSA that they called VRSA because it was becoming so resistant to vancomycin.21 There was a second bacterial opponent as well, a strain with an insidiously different adaptation that researchers called VISA, for vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus.

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By the time Tony got sick, researchers worldwide were nervously tracking an uncommon strain of MRSA that they called VRSA because it was becoming so resistant to vancomycin.21 There was a second bacterial opponent as well, a strain with an insidiously different adaptation that researchers called VISA, for vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus.

SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

By the time Tony got sick, researchers worldwide were nervously tracking an uncommon strain of MRSA that they called VRSA because it was becoming so resistant to vancomycin.21 There was a second bacterial opponent as well, a strain with an insidiously different adaptation that researchers called VISA, for vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus.

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The first documented strain with complete resistance to vancomycin, termed VRSA (Vancomycin-resistant

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The first documented strain with complete resistance to vancomycin, termed VRSA (Vancomycin-resistant

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VRSA, see vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

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By the end of 2007, there had been nine VRSA cases in the world, all of them in the United States, and seven of them in Michigan.

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Researchers wondered whether they were witnessing the start of the epidemic they had feared—but microbiological analysis revealed that the two VRSA strains were not related.

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A VRSA crisis had been avoided for the time being, but it seemed that a VISA crisis was still building, with increasing numbers of infections caused by MRSAs that possessed mysteriously thickened cell walls.

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