Once it gets into the body, through wounds or medical tubes, it can cause an infection that could kill someone already weakened by illness. In Britain, it is estimated that MRSA and other ...

The study, conducted by researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found that six bacterial ...

A mom has said her 11-day-old daughter died from an infection at an 'absolutely putrid' hospital at an inquiry into the ...

Public Health Laboratory Service figures show that 4,767 patients in England and Wales suffered an MRSA bloodstream infection in 2001. Figures are expected to have risen to over 7,000 last year.

When that happens, your infection will be said to be antibiotic resistant, and your physician will have to prescribe a different drug to combat it. MRSA: The Spread of Drug Resistance In fact ...

Artificial nails also frequently cause tears in gloves. Artificial nails place patients at risk of MRSA nosocomial infection and health care workers at risk for MRSA colonization (Toles ...

The following is a summary of “Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in men having sex with men (MSM): a systematic review,” published in the March 2025 issue of BMC Infectious Diseases ...

An abscess was defined as acute onset within 1 ... Eighty percent of the isolates were MRSA. All isolates were susceptible to TMP-SMX. Non-inferiority of placebo relative to TMP-SMX was ...