This report is based on an intensive and continuing program of evaluation and attempted control of a serious problem of staphylococcal infection in this 600-bed tuberculosis and chest-disease hospital ...

Researchers examined whether having rapid molecular results of Staphylococcus aureus tests available in real-time would impact the antimicrobial selection of emergency department clinicians in a ...

THE purpose of this communication is to report an outbreak of staphylococcal infections on the Surgical Service of the Veterans Administration Hospital, Manchester, New Hampshire, the measures taken ...

Intervention reduces staph infections in hospital NICU: 5 things to know Researchers analyzed the effect of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus decolonization on MSSA infection incidence and ...

NEW ORLEANS — For older men being treated for Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia who have received immunosuppressive agents, a single negative blood culture may be insufficient to demonstrate clearance, ...

Findings from a new study in Nature Communications focused on the nasal microbiome show that people who persistently carry Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) in the nose have fewer types of bacterial ...

The bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa can produce specific molecular factors that dramatically increase or decrease an antibiotic's ability to kill Staphylococcus aureus, another bacterium that often ...

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Almost as fast as new antibiotics are marketed, there evolve a few strains of disease-causing microbes that are resistant to the most potent germ killers. Recently, thanks largely to overuse and ...