cSSSI: Complicated skin and skin-structure infection; ESBL: Extended spectrum β lactamase; MRSA: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; MSSA: Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus.

The enemy in this case (as in most U.S. outbreaks of in-hospital infection) were resistant strains of the common Staphylococcus aureus, usually found in boils and infected wounds. Scene of the ...

Further experimentation showed that scratching reduced the amount of Staphylococcus aureus on the skin. The bacteria, also known as staph, is the most common cause of skin infections and can lead ...

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Vancomycin ...

The most detailed study to date on the mechanisms by which a common type of bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus, adapts to living on the human body could help improve the prevention, diagnosis ...

Any one of those mutations could give your staph infection the capacity to continue replicating, even in the presence of the antibiotic. All it takes is a single mutated S. aureus—one that ...

and the pulse 120. Cultures of the nose, throat, buttocks and pus obtained from Stensen's duct on the right all grew hemolytic Staph. aureus. Study of the organism isolated from the parotid gland ...

What would you tell these parents? Tom Frieden, MD MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staph aureus, is an organism that became resistant in health care facilities and spread to the community. That’s ...