MRSA Antibiotic: Do they treat MRSA or Just the Infection of MRSA?

The MRSA antibiotic I received was Vancomycin, it is a glycopeptide antibiotic used in the treatment of infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria. It has traditionally been reserved as a drug of "last resort", used only after treatment with other antibiotics had failed, although the emergence of vancomycin-resistant organisms means that it is increasingly being displaced from this role by linezolid and daptomycin.

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As found in Wikipedia

Linezolid(INN) (pronounced /lɪˈnɛzəlɪd/, li-NE-zə-lid) is a synthetic antibiotic used for the treatment of serious infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria that are resistant to several other antibiotics.

A member of the oxazolidinone class of drugs, linezolid is active against most Gram-positive bacteria that cause disease, including streptococci, vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

[1] The main indications of linezolid are infections of the skin and soft tissues and pneumonia (particularly hospital-acquired pneumonia), although off-label use for a variety of other infections is becoming popular.

Linezolid is marketed by Pfizer under the trade names Zyvox (in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and several other countries), Zyvoxid (in Europe), and Zyvoxam (in Canada and Mexico). Generics are also available in India, such as Linospan (Cipla).

Discovered in the 1990s and first approved for use in 2000, linezolid was the first commercially available oxazolidinone antibiotic. As of 2009, it is the only marketed oxazolidinone, although others are in development. As a protein synthesis inhibitor, it stops the growth of bacteria by disrupting their production of proteins.

Although many MRSA antibiotics work this way, the exact mechanism of action of linezolid appears to be unique to the oxazolidinone class. Bacterial resistance to linezolid has remained very low since it was first detected in 1999, although it may be increasing.

After reading this from Wiki it seems to me that MRSA antibiotics are just for treating the infection but not the cause of Mercer!

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