Many studies have described dramatic localized outbreaks of cutaneous infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA ... patients presenting with skin and soft-tissue infections ...

The diagnosis of skin abscess was made clinically or with bedside ... Eighty percent of the isolates were MRSA. All isolates were susceptible to TMP-SMX. Non-inferiority of placebo relative ...

Simple hand washing. And for parents who do think that their child might have a MRSA skin infection, how can they distinguish the difference between a regular skin infection vs. MRSA? Tom Frieden ...