Researchers found no link between colonization and mortality among MRSA-infected patients and concluded that strategies to decolonize carriers may help prevent MRSA but may not be enough to prevent ...

Hospitalized children that are colonized but not sick with the antibiotic-resistant bacterium MRSA are at considerable risk for developing full-blown infections, according to research conducted by ...

The idea that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) abscesses don’t always require antibiotics (Item 122-5) may have been accepted in 1950, but it is not true anymore. All clinicians know ...

In their study of risk factors for MRSA infection, researchers found patients’ age and antibiotic prophylaxis were not significantly associated with the adverse outcome, despite previous medical ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2013;11(5):499-509. Limiting unnecessary, empiric, broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy is universally thought to be an effective tool for reducing HAIs and limiting ...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health provides a free, downloadable brochure for patients titled, “Helpful Reminders About MRSA Infection.” The two-page brochure addresses a number of ...

For this project, we confronted a big hurdle from the get-go: If the state and federal governments don’t bother to count MRSA cases, how could we do it ourselves? We turned first to a database — kept ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Hexachlorophene and mupirocin do not effectively remove colonies of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from people with HIV, a new study shows. "For several years ...