Comment A common misconception (Score 2, Informative) 201
[from above]Except that antibiotic-resistant strains are generally less virulent than the old-fashioned kind
The view that antibiotic-resistant strains are less virulent is rapidly falling out of favor with bugs such as community acquired MRSA, XDR-TB and VRE. We are seeing bugs that are as virulent if not more in the case of CA-MRSA that are wrecking havoc on human hosts as they not only are antibiotic resistant but have specific virulence factors to work in human hosts. Panton-. Valentin leukocidin (i may have spelled that incorrectly) allows CA-MRSA to hang on to human skin very nicely, and the bug is an absolute terror if it gets into the blood stream. Anyways, My point isn't to go into the nitty gritty of virulence of emerging pathogens but rather to say that we aren't seeing less virulent new bugs but rather very deadly new bugs.
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The view that antibiotic-resistant strains are less virulent is rapidly falling out of favor with bugs such as community acquired MRSA, XDR-TB and VRE. We are seeing bugs that are as virulent if not more in the case of CA-MRSA that are wrecking havoc on human hosts as they not only are antibiotic resistant but have specific virulence factors to work in human hosts. Panton-. Valentin leukocidin (i may have spelled that incorrectly) allows CA-MRSA to hang on to human skin very nicely, and the bug is an absolute terror if it gets into the blood stream. Anyways, My point isn't to go into the nitty gritty of virulence of emerging pathogens but rather to say that we aren't seeing less virulent new bugs but rather very deadly new bugs.
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