U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Baltimore City, will introduce legislation today that would establish a national database to track cases of the antibiotic-resistant strain of staphylococcus and other ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clonal-complex (CC) 398 is the dominant MRSA in European livestock and a growing cause of human infections. A new study fully characterizes the ...

n 2006, a member of the Tucson Fire Department (TFD) noticed a small red bump on his skin that looked like a spider bite. It rapidly spread until his entire arm was engulfed in a raging infection that ...

Contact precautions, or CP, don’t need to be deemed an “essential practice” to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus prevention in acute care facilities, according to doctors who ...

A University of Florida study of middle-aged and older adults finds those who unknowingly carry methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, on their skin are twice as likely to die within ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Millions of people are colonized with MRSA and don’t know it,” he said. “It has been unclear what sort of ...

Proof that MRSA control policies in hospitals work is poor, show researchers in this week's BMJ. But they stress that, although better studies are urgently needed, isolation measures should continue ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Studies showed that bed bugs could acquire MRSA both externally on the cuticle surface as well as internally ...

The natural world is full of microbes, fungi, and plants that have given us valuable medicines, like tetracyclines, penicillin, and morphine. Researchers have now identified a molecule they called ...

When it comes to colonization of healthcare workers, not all strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus are created equal, according to research published in Antimicrobial Resistance and ...

24 April 2020, Bavaria, Bad Griesbach: A hedgehog walks through a garden after his hibernation. Photo: Armin Weigel/dpa (Photo by Armin Weigel/picture alliance via Getty Images) One type of ...