Researchers prospectively studied patients presenting with skin and soft-tissue infections ... The prevalence of MRSA varied widely (from 15% of patients in New York to 74% in Kansas City ...

With the rising prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus (S.) aureus (MRSA), a multi drug resistant strain, treatment has become a ...

Also, MRSA can develop resistance to mupirocin ... Do hand care products impair the effect of hand disinfectants? Experts assert that skin care is important, because cracked, dry skin can be ...

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 ...

Surfaces covered in a micropattern mimicking the ridges of shark skin could reduce the spread of drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and other superbugs in hospitals. Jef Akst was managing editor of ...

The MRSA superbug has evolved into 'fitter' strains which could prove even more resistant to treatment, a leading scientist warned on Tuesday. Professor Hajo Grundmann, a world expert in ...

MRSA, which stands for methicillin-resistant ... is commonly found in the nose and on the skin of about 30 per cent of people, according to the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

MRSA: The Spread of Drug Resistance In fact, there is a good chance that the staph infection you picked up from that contaminated doorknob is already antibiotic resistant. Most staph infections in ...