It's unclear how these high-profile athletes acquired their infections, but locker rooms have been found to habor staph bacteria in previous outbreaks. The topic is generating buzz throughout the ...

There's a silver lining to everything - including a fungus living on your skin.Turns out, that fungus could help destroy drug-resistant bacteria - including tho ...

Introduction: The topmost deadliest microorganism, namely, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), causes dreadful infections like bacteremia, pneumonia, endocarditis, and systemic ...

Bacterial skin infections can happen when bacteria enter the body due to a break in the skin. Different types of skin infections include methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), impetigo, ...

It may look purplish or simply darker than the usual skin tone on dark brown or black skin. MRSA is a type of staph infection, but the bacteria that cause don't go away in response to antibiotics.

Drug-resistant infections -- especially from deadly bacteria like tuberculosis and staph -- are a growing global health crisis. These infections are harder to treat, often require more expensive ...

fostering pathogens like the well-known MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). This strain can cause serious bloodstream infections or pneumonia. The Centers for Disease Control and ...

Pneumonia caused by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most dangerous infections that can occur in hospital. Particularly worrying are multi-resistant strains, against which many ...

Collectively they signal that drug-resistant staph has changed in startling and threatening ways, and that our control efforts, and even our ability to detect it, have not kept up. Most people think ...

Leon Edwards was battling staph infection during his UFC London training camp, but insists the problem has been dealt with ahead of his Sean Brady main event, scheduled for this Sat. (March 22 ...

Many studies have described dramatic localized outbreaks of cutaneous infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the U.S. (Journal Watch Mar 31 2006), but it's not clear ...

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