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  • initialism medicine, microbiology vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus 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.

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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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  • Versatel is a publicly traded company on the Amsterdam Stock Exchanges and Nasdaq National Market under the symbol "VRSA".

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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.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

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