Mupirocin kills this type of bacteria. The study randomly selected systemic lupus erythematosus patients currently experiencing cutaneous lupus erythematosus flares to treat their skin lesions ...

If nostril culture shows that the patient is a staph carrier, mupirocin ointment is applied in the nostrils twice daily for 5 days, and as indicated thereafter.

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2009;7(8):957-965. Although mupirocin did show antimicrobial cure in SIDs, it did not show a significantly improved clinical cure rate compared with vehicle placebo.