Antibiotic-resistant bacteria prompts call for prevention Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Health care workers have called it MRSA for years. It's a technical term for antibiotic-resistant bacteria. And yep, that phrase - antibiotic-resistant - is sure to scare some people. That's because healthy folks are getting these hard-to-treat staph infections, some of which can become quite serious. |