MRSA: The Spread of Drug Resistance In fact, there is a good chance that the staph infection you picked up from that contaminated doorknob is already antibiotic resistant. Most staph infections in ...

At least three patients at Victoria Hospital's palliative care unit have tested positive for the ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2013;11(5):499-509. Outbreak strain(s) are given in bold. CA: Community associated; HA: Healthcare associated; MRSA: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; ND ...

People with diabetes are more prone to developing Staphylococcus aureus, a leading cause of infections and death associated ...

Nursing homes with higher invasive Staphylococcus aureus ... MRSA; 82% of facilities had more than one case. The 20% of nursing homes with the highest MRSA rates made up for 50% of MRSA infections ...

MRSA — or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus — is ... to expel the MRSA infection. He had that PICC line in for six weeks, from mid-May to late June or early July, Wonnum said.

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 ...

MRSA, which stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, is a form of Staphyloccoccus ... in large part due to improved infection control and early detection. There are antibiotics ...