Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) emerged in the United States in the 1980s and is considered a nosocomial pathogen. An increasing number of patients have been identified with MRSA ...

Consumer Reports has no relationship with any advertisers on this website. Children who get MRSA—a dangerous type of staph infection that can lead to sepsis and is sometimes fatal—must be diagnosed ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The answer is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Surgeons at one hospital system found that MRSA may ...

It has been more than 10 years since the clinical battle began with community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and doctors are still grappling with how to diagnose, treat ...

However, if MRSA gets into your bloodstream, it can cause infections in other organs like your heart, which is called endocarditis. It can also cause sepsis, which is the body’s overwhelming response ...

Colonization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the groin area of HIV-infected adults increases risk for subsequent clinical infection, according to results of a prospective ...

Severe skin infections are increasing among children and becoming one of the most common reasons for hospitalization, a new study finds. In 2009, about 71,900 children spent time in the hospital ...

These are abscesses in mice that received placebo, nanoparticle alone or nanoparticle with nitric oxide for 4 days after MRSA abscess formation. The inset in the untreated group shows what the ...

It started with something that looked like a spider bite.Mollie Logan barely noticed it. She was focused on 15-day-old Isabella, the baby she and her husband had longed and tried for since their ...