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A gold coin, minted in the Roman Empire from approximately 100 to 309 , equal to 25 denarii.
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Modelling by KPMG and RAND Europe, commissioned by the review, looked at three bacteria – K pneumoniae, E coli and Staphylococcus aureus – out of a group of seven highlighted by the World Health Organisation, as already showing concerning resistance levels.
In Britain, about 40% of staphylococcus aureus blood infections are methicillin-resistant.
Yet around one-third of people carry some form of S. aureus without coming to any harm.
The best-known is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, known as MRSA.
A study published in 2006 by a group from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden found that more than 25% of its domestic cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) were caused by infection from abroad.
Pharmaceutical firms are not developing new ones, and many of the existing antibiotics are no longer effective against strains of "superbugs" such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Dealing with multi drug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus (which causes MRSA infections) and Escherichia coli (linked to food poisoning) requires complex and costly care.
Although methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is more famous, Clostridium difficile is a superbug to be reckoned with.
Triclosan-resistant mutants of Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus have already been isolated in the laboratory.
Ritaban Dutta at Warwick University in Britain has developed software that can recognise the smell of bacteria, including the deadly superbug MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus).
About a third of people carry some form of S. aureus on their skin, where the bacteria do no harm.
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