Combo of 3 antibiotics can kill deadly staph infections
Three antibiotics that, individually, are not effective against a drug-resistant staph infection can kill the deadly pathogen when combined as a trio, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. They have killed the bug — methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) — in test tubes and laboratory mice, and believe the same strategy may work in people.
Families of kids with staph infections have high rate of drug-resistant germ
Family members of children with a staph
infection often harbor a drug-resistant form of the germ, although they
don’t show symptoms, a team of researchers from Washington University
School of Medicine in St. Louis has found.