Are there any forms of staph that are resistant to all available antibiotics? What is the treatment (or what would the treatment be) for this type of staph?

Question

I know about MRSA and VRSA staph strains, but are there ones that are resistant to all antibiotics that we have?

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Answer 1

Probably not all strains, at least not reported yet. There are other “superbugs” that have been reported with “pandrug resistance” or resistance to every antibiotic. In practice that’s always only every antibiotic tested. Testing literally everything is impractical, so that’s when doctors and pharmacists go looking for old antibiotics that have fallen out of favor, really new and expensive antibiotics developed for just this kind of case, or weirder treatments like phage therapy and antimicrobial peptides.