A group of five medical organizations have released updated recommendations for the prevention of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, known as MRSA, transmission and infection. MRSA causes ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2013;11(5):499-509. Limiting unnecessary, empiric, broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy is universally thought to be an effective tool for reducing HAIs and limiting ...

Severe skin infections are increasing among children and becoming one of the most common reasons for hospitalization, a new study finds. In 2009, about 71,900 children spent time in the hospital ...

Even in a post-pandemic world, frontline health care workers face many occupational challenges, and exposure to infection is among them. Now, University of Cincinnati scientists are working to ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Outbreaks of skin and soft tissue infections caused by the superbug MRSA -- short for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus -- continue to be a problem, especially ...

The idea that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) abscesses don’t always require antibiotics (Item 122-5) may have been accepted in 1950, but it is not true anymore. All clinicians know ...

Endocarditis can be a life threatening complication of MRSA in which the infection causes inflammation in the lining of the heart, and its valves and chambers. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus ...

Here is some background information about MRSA. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria are resistant to all beta-lactam antibiotics such as methicillin, penicillin, oxacillin, and ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A new strain of the MRSA superbug has killed two people following an outbreak in a hospital, public health experts said on Monday. The Health Protection Agency (HPA), which monitors ...