It's a wide field. Fight against an illness is divided into

sections like diagnosis, prophylaxis, hygiene, treatment,

follow-up care, fundamental research, clinical tests,

drug development, and more.

Only a focus on MRSA medication:

http://medicalcenter.osu.edu/mediaroom/releases/Pages/MRSA-RESEARCHERS-IDENTIFY-NEW-CLASS-OF-DRUG-EFFECTIVE-AGAINST-SUPERBUG.aspx

http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/tp-melanderdod/

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-01/uonc-usm013113.php

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/cwru-nna091212.php

http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?l=en&d=130&a=155715&newsdep=130

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-receptor-proteins-clues-antibiotic-resistance.html

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/asu-amw051713.php

http://www.sciencecodex.com/researchers_unzip_mrsa_and_discover_route_for_vaccine

http://www.medindia.net/news/Route-for-Vaccine-for-MRSA-Discovered-79589-1.htm

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-08/uocm-spk081410.php

http://www.nature.com/news/vaccine-development-man-vs-mrsa-1.9940

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-immunization-mrsa-horizon.html

http://phys.org/news/2011-04-mrsa-copper-global.html

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-scientists-superbugs-toxin-virtually-strains.html

http://www.impactlab.net/2011/07/26/honey-could-help-fight-mrsa-and-other-superbugs/

Regards,

Joachim (not a medic)

Well lot of work on the topic has been published. Being Microbiologist all i can comment is the fact that labs should be able to follow the CLSI guidelines in the identification of MRSA. Our experience is that we have about 50-60% of all staph aureus isolates being MRSA. The most common clinical specimen submitted with us is Pus and pus swab implicating that wound infections caused by MRSA are tremendous. in addition to hosp acquired infections MRSA can also cause community acquired infections. Linezolid has shown excellent in vitro efficacy against MRSA isolates.