Pablo Picasso The Old Guitarist painting

Pablo Picasso The Old Guitarist painting
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theory, patients who harbor the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria — and up to 80 percent have it, at least periodically — could have their noses treated with antibiotics, reducing the likelihood that the bug will spread out of control.The standard drug for treating S.aureus in the nose is mupirocin, sold under the brand name Bactroban by GlaxoSmithKline, a company formed by the merger of Glaxo and SmithKline Beecham.But overuse of the drug could also make the bacteria resistant to the antibiotic.In an accompanying editorial, Drs. Gordon L. Archer and Michael W. Climo of the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond said that to eliminate the bacteria, “we will need better tools...”“Ideally, all patients admitted to the hospital ... should be screened” for the bacteria in the nose, which would require a rapid test, they said.