What antibiotics work for mrsa?

What antibiotics work for mrsa?
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answer:Depends. Ideally you could get a wound culture and given whatever the bacteria is susceptible to. The knee-jerk answer is usually to give vancomycin, which is why we’re now seeing so much resistance to it.
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