Researchers hope a vaccine could be available within seven years
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Scientists in the East Midlands are leading the way with new ideas to combat the superbug MRSA.
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus has proved extremely difficult to eradicate and is resistant to some antibiotics.
Researchers at Nottingham University are now working on a vaccine to protect against MRSA - of which there were 433 cases in the region last year.
They believe the inoculation could be ready in about seven years.
MRSA is notoriously difficult to treat and can prove fatal.
Dr Roger Bayston from the University of Nottingham said: "We'll reduce the numbers of infections, we'll reduce the numbers of operations that go disastrously wrong - which aren't very many but when they do occur are very, very serious to the patient."
The jabs will be administered before orthopaedic surgery, operations which carry about a one in 100 risk of infection.
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