In the past, numerous strategies have been implemented to eradicate colonization in patients who carry MRSA. The anterior nares are the most common site of colonization. Over 40 different nasal ...

Background: Concern for MRSA in patients presented to the hospital with pneumonia may be overestimated leading to excessive prescribing of empiric anti-MRSA therapy. This study aims to identify at ...

The bug can attack patients who go into hospital for surgery but are otherwise healthy. MRSA figures are difficult to come by because so many people carry it harmlessly. Also, the people who die ...

In Britain, it is estimated that MRSA and other infections such as clostridium difficile kill up to 5,000 patients every year, despite a Government drive to clean up hospitals. Other estimates ...

The study, conducted by researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found that six bacterial ...

University of Manchester researchers are ridding diabetic patients of the superbug MRSA - by treating their foot ulcers with maggots. Professor Andrew Boulton and his team used green bottle fly larvae ...

aureus, including hard-to-treat infections caused by methicillin-resistant strains (MRSA), said Basilea ... The ERADICATE study enrolled 390 patients with complicated SAB, including some with ...