Ramona Iseppi

Dec 7, 2023 | frontiersin.org | Sandra Truong |Karl A. Hassan |Ramona Iseppi

1 IntroductionSince their discovery, antibiotics have greatly increased our quality of life, treating infections which were once considered life-threatening. However, our reliance and increased antibiotic usage has contributed to the emergence of several antibiotic resistant bacterial strains. As Staphylococcus aureus is a commensal mucosal organism in almost half the population, our repeated use of antibiotics has inevitably caused the development of multiple methicillin resistant S.