It started with something that looked like a spider bite.Mollie Logan barely noticed it. She was focused on 15-day-old Isabella, the baby she and her husband had longed and tried for since their ...

Nearly 120,000 people contracted bloodstream staph infections in the United States in 2017, most of them in health care facilities – and nearly 20,000 died. Progress against the most dangerous ...

Severe skin infections are increasing among children and becoming one of the most common reasons for hospitalization, a new study finds. In 2009, about 71,900 children spent time in the hospital ...

Background. Staphylococcus aureus (SA) breast abscesses are a complication of the postpartum period. Risk factors for postpartum SA breast abscesses are poorly defined, and literature is conflicting.

FDA Clears Advanced Molecular Test for MRSA The FDA has cleared an in vitro diagnostic test for the direct detection of nasal colonization with bacterial MRSA. Medscape Medical News, July 12, 2010 ...

These are abscesses in mice that received placebo, nanoparticle alone or nanoparticle with nitric oxide for 4 days after MRSA abscess formation. The inset in the untreated group shows what the ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria are resistant to multiple antibiotics and commonly cause skin infections that can lead to serious or life-threatening infection in other ...

Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, (MRCA, sometimes pronounced “mursa”) is a type of bacteria or “germ” that can be found on the skin of a healthy people. However, MRSA can also cause ...