Severe MRSA infections can be fatal. MRSA mortality rates tend to be highest in older people. Certain underlying health conditions can also increase the risk of death. Staphylococcus aureus is a ...

The University of Pennsylvania Medical Center developed patient safety education designed to prevent MRSA infections. Download the patient education on MRSA prevention for use in your own facility.

Since it was published just last week, not all of you have had the pleasure of reading The Primary Source's article "Come and Get It: Promiscuity among gays spreads staph infection" (Jan. 30). While ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Recent recommendations for MRSA prevention suggest contact precautions are essential. There are currently no ...

Dear Reader: We have a brain, and bacteria don’t. So you’d think bacteria wouldn’t be able to outsmart us. But they sure can figure out ways to become resistant to the antibiotics we use to kill them.

Methicillin-resistant staph infections have entered the community, posing a bigger challenge for health-care providers. The CDC outlines what to do. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When she first described it in 1961, Patricia Jevons, a British bacteriologist, may have had a hard time imagining that the tiny bug she was staring at would soon become a ...

Daniel Fells has a MRSA infection that doctors fear could lead to amputation. — -- A dire infection that has left an NFL player facing possible amputation has highlighted the dangers professional ...

Even in a post-pandemic world, frontline health care workers face many occupational challenges, and exposure to infection is among them. Now, University of Cincinnati scientists are working to ...

Nursing homes with higher invasive Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) rates had fewer registered nurses, a new study finds. Boosting the number of nurses in high-risk communities could lower MRSA rates, ...