In German hospitals, each year 132,000 patients contract infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). For more than a decade, different countries have reported an increasing ...

Unlike respiratory pathogens that spread through airborne routes, MRSA transmits primarily through direct person-to-person contact or contact with contaminated objects and surfaces.

Certain bacteria, including the dangerous nosocomial pathogen MRSA, can protect themselves from acidic conditions in our body and thus ensure their survival. Researchers have now elucidated an ...

Table 1. Main risk factors for multidrug-resistant pathogens in hospitalized patients. Microorganisms Risk factors OR Ref. MRSA: Hospitalization period in an ICU ...

First, the large reductions in infections that we observed were achieved over and above the substantial reductions in bloodstream infections due to MRSA and other pathogens that have occurred at ...

Seventy percent of all antibiotics in the United States go to healthy livestock, according to a careful study by the Union of Concerned Scientists — and that's one reason we're seeing the ...

SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- October is World MRSA Awareness Month, which was created to raise awareness of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria and how to ...

Previous observations have linked methicillin resistance in MRSA pathogens to the acquisition of the non-native mecA gene coding for the Penicillin Binding Protein 2a (PBP2a).However, the ...

MRSA infections have become a major concern in hospitals, but few people are aware that animals and humans can infect each other. In the United States, one in three people carries a staph bacterium, ...

SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- October is World MRSA Awareness Month, which was created to raise awareness of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria and how to ...