Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A synthetic antibiotic related to penicillin, C17H19N2O6NaS, used to treat infections caused by staphylococci that produce beta-lactamase and are therefore resistant to beta-lactam penicillin drugs. It has largely been replaced by newer synthetic penicillin drugs that act similarly, such as dicloxacillin.
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- noun pharmacology An
antibiotic drug, chemically related topenicillin , often used against strains of bacteria which have become resistant to penicillin.
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- noun antibiotic drug of the penicillin family used in the treatment of certain staphylococcal infections
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Recently, more attention has been paid to a particular strain of staph called methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Extreme Hygiene: Infectious Germs Are Bulking Up at the Gym 2010
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Recently, more attention has been paid to a particular strain of staph called methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Extreme Hygiene: Infectious Germs Are Bulking Up at the Gym 2010
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Recently, more attention has been paid to a particular strain of staph called methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Extreme Hygiene: Infectious Germs Are Bulking Up at the Gym 2010
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Public health officials have been concerned about superbugs, particularly one type prevalent in hospitals known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, because they can kill patients.
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Recently, more attention has been paid to a particular strain of staph called methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Extreme Hygiene: Infectious Germs Are Bulking Up at the Gym 2010
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Recently, more attention has been paid to a particular strain of staph called methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Extreme Hygiene: Infectious Germs Are Bulking Up at the Gym 2010
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Recently, more attention has been paid to a particular strain of staph called methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Extreme Hygiene: Infectious Germs Are Bulking Up at the Gym 2010
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But the children had somehow contracted a strain called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, which is resistant to many drugs, including those they were given.
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One such infection, known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, has caused much concern.
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He developed a drug-resistant staph infection called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
Hospital Infections: 2008
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