A flood of media coverage has put a spotlight on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) after a number of recent cases arose in Virginia and several other states.

Doxycyline or TMP/SMX provides excellent coverage against both organisms. Cellulitis without an associated purulent lesion should be treated with antibiotics directed at CA-MRSA, MSSA, and group A ...

MRSA is a problem and should be reported, but if all the coverage is doing is making people anxious, the media need to ask itself if it is part of the problem. When the government announces rates have ...

Antibiotics overprescribing for patients with community-acquired pneumonia is a persisting and significant problem in the ICU, researchers reported at IDWeek 2016.

Researchers searched the literature for studies on universal screening for MRSA prevention. While they were able to identify many studies testing the procedure, poor study design and heterogeneous ...

Jones and colleagues assessed whether positive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) admission surveillance cultures were associated with MRSA in clinical cultures and the use of anti ...

October 16, 2006 (Toronto) -- A study presented here finds an association between community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) and necrotizing fasciitis (NF), an ...

The spread of MRSA in hospitals could be curtailed with a quick test from a portable device according to its developer, Cambridge-based TwistDx. The technology, which employs recombinase polymerase ...

Mar. 22 -- FRIDAY, March 21 (HealthDay News) -- A small, but worrisome number of facelift patients became infected with the antibiotic-resistant staph infection known as MRSA, a new study reports ...

We would like to propose a multicenter study, not only looking at the safety, but also the efficacy of MRSA coverage for prophylaxis in order to prevent surgical site infection.” – by Renee ...

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