MRSA symptoms vary depending on the infection site, commonly appearing on the skin as bumps or lesions, but can also affect the lungs, bones, blood, and heart. MRSA skin infections can resemble other ...

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A cyst is a sac filled with fluid, air, or other material that can form anywhere in the body. Most cysts are benign—harmless and symptom-free. In fact, someone with a cyst may not even know that they ...

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — An outbreak of the antibiotic-resistant infection MRSA circulated in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital for more than three years and infected ...

The story of MRSA begins just four years after methicillin entered medical practice in 1959. The bacteria had already developed resistance to the new antibiotic, demonstrating the remarkable ...

Researchers have discovered a breakthrough method to silence MRSA’s drug resistance, restoring its sensitivity to standard antibiotics and offering new hope in the fight against superbugs.

The methicillin-resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) kills a million people per year globally, making it one of the three deadliest bacteria in humans. This toll is expected to rise ...

Nursing homes with higher invasive Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) rates had fewer registered nurses, a new study finds. Boosting the number of nurses in high-risk communities could lower MRSA rates, ...

Scientists have discovered the mechanism which allows the superbug Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to become highly resistant to antibiotics, paving the way for new approaches to ...