Antibiotic resistance continues to push modern medicine into dangerous territory. In hospitals around the world, infections ...

However, MSRA is not only a problem within hospitals. The emergence of community-acquired MRSA is presenting a new challenge in many countries. This is a problem in Western Australia for example, ...

MRSA (meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is the most commonly identified antibiotic-resistant pathogen in many parts of the world, including Europe, the Americas, north Africa, the middle ...

Outbreaks of skin and soft tissue infections caused by the superbug MRSA — short for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus — continue to be a problem, especially among high school football teams ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain faces a "horrific" problem with hospital superbugs, entrepreneur Richard Branson said on Tuesday, accusing politicians and hospital bosses of tinkering with the problem but ...

Chief financial officers are becoming well-versed in the problem of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus in hospitals. Who'd have thunk it? It's because MRSA now affects the bottom line. Of ...

The talk of the NFL this past week has been on the unseen, long-term effects of concussions, but it's another hidden danger that's ravaging players and frightening the league — bacterial MRSA ...

The presence of a boil on the body should not be taken lightly, according to Dr. Bertha Ayi. Leaving it untreated, she said, could result in serious health consequences, even death. "If you have a ...

MRSA is a form of staph bacteria that is resistant to many antibiotics typically used to treat bacterial infections. When an MRSA infection travels through the bloodstream, it can reach organs like ...

We conducted a multicenter, randomized, controlled trial of postdischarge hygiene education, as compared with education plus decolonization, in patients colonized with MRSA (carriers). Decolonization ...

Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterium that commonly grows on the skin. If bacteria enter the skin, a staph infection may develop. MRSA causes a type of staph infection that can be hard to treat due to ...

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 ...