How widespread are community-acquired infections due to emerging methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains, and are these strains responsible for changes in the clinical spectrum of ...

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 ...

Imagine two people talking over a walkie-talkie set. Successful communication depends on them being tuned to the same frequency. If others try to communicate nearby, interference can occur, and ...

The Infectious Diseases Society of America has released its first guidelines for treatment of MRSA infections, according to an IDSA news release. The guidelines can help physicians determine the most ...

New research from scientists at the University of Sheffield and elsewhere shows that methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) relies on two co-dependent mechanisms to survive exposure to ...

When methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria are exposed to cigarette smoke, they become even more resistant to being killed by a person’s immune system, according to research out of the ...

As part of its five-year national program to improve MRSA prevention practices across healthcare facilities, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has published a prevention toolkit for ICU ...

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 ...

LONDON, June 3 (Reuters) - British scientists have found a new strain of the "superbug" MRSA in milk from cows and in swab samples from humans and say it cannot be detected with standard tests.

Nearly a month after a wastewater pipe broke and spewed hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River ...