Thug Bugs

Resistant Microbes, Antibiotic Abuse, and the Threat to Public Health
The reason why we are so concerned with vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE), is because VRE + MRSA could lead to VRSA--a vancomycin-resistant S. aureus or "Catastrostaph," as I call it. In 1991 a scientist named Nobel was able to show in the laboratory that VRE could transmit its highly resistant gene to S. aureus and cause the proliferation of this super bug. Nobel was so concerned about it that he destroyed his isolates.