Researchers have determined four risk factors for MRSA colonization in patients admitted to pediatric intensive care units, according to a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control.

Admission to the intensive care unit is a major risk factor for contracting the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection among patients colonized with MRSA, according to a study in ...

In their study of risk factors for MRSA infection, researchers found patients’ age and antibiotic prophylaxis were not significantly associated with the adverse outcome, despite previous medical ...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health provides a free, downloadable brochure for patients titled, “Helpful Reminders About MRSA Infection.” The two-page brochure addresses a number of ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Hexachlorophene and mupirocin do not effectively remove colonies of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from people with HIV, a new study shows. "For several years ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2013;11(5):499-509. Limiting unnecessary, empiric, broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy is universally thought to be an effective tool for reducing HAIs and limiting ...

For this project, we confronted a big hurdle from the get-go: If the state and federal governments don’t bother to count MRSA cases, how could we do it ourselves? We turned first to a database — kept ...

The story of MRSA begins just four years after methicillin entered medical practice in 1959. The bacteria had already developed resistance to the new antibiotic, demonstrating the remarkable ...