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Exploring the dark side of Staph aureus, a bacterium resistant to multiple drugs—even those yet to be tested in humans

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Staphylococcus aureus thrives harmlessly on the skin and in nasal passages.

But it also exists as a drug-resistant pathogen, and microbiologists have found that many of these bacteria are resistant to multiple antibiotics.

Pathogenic strains gain resistance to antibiotic candidates in the pipeline, repelling medications before they're even tested in humans.

Antibiotic resistance is one of the medical world's most pressing challenges, according to the World Health Organization .

The WHO has gone on record declaring that drug resistance will become a leading cause of death by 2050 unless solutions are developed now.

S. aureus rebuffed every experimental and recently approved antibiotic tested by the team of researchers.

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