Sulfa drugs kick a lot of ass, MRSA is generally susceptible to them, one of few oral meds that is effective.
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Originally Posted by Tervuren
The antibiotics as I understand, do not create resistant strains, rather they kill off what isn't resistant to that antibiotic. Eventually this leaves behind a population of what is resistant.
So its like getting a breather now, for something that would be a problem anyway if you didn't, and will end up being a problem again in the future.
Is this correct?
When it comes to health, prevention seems to be the better route than a cure; but people want to do whatever without personal consequence. Hand themselves a problem, want instant cure. Repeat.
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This is on point, particularly the last paragraph.
There are a number of things leading to resistant strains of bacteria. Over utilization, people not taking full course of antibiotics and there are some antibiotics that tend to induce resistance. For example, if you take a quinilone antibiotic, like Cipro, by itself, it can do this, according to the infectious disease guys. I have talked to a few that attribute the lion's share of the problem to inappropriate use, and over use of Cipro.