These infections ... presenting with skin and soft-tissue infections to 11 urban emergency rooms around the country during a single month in 2004. Of 422 patients (81% with abscesses, 11% with ...

Simple hand washing. And for parents who do think that their child might have a MRSA skin infection, how can they distinguish the difference between a regular skin infection vs. MRSA? Tom Frieden ...

Most of the time, these bacteria cause no problems or cause relatively minor skin infections. But staph can lead to a more serious infection called MRSA, with the bacteria - which has become ...

When that happens, your infection will be said to be antibiotic resistant, and your physician will have to prescribe a different drug to combat it. MRSA: The Spread of Drug Resistance In fact ...

The authors performed a double-blind, randomized, controlled trial to assess the efficacy of antibiotics as an adjunct to incision and drainage in pediatric skin infections. The patients were ...

The US 300 community-acquired MRSA strain remains relatively uncommon ... 2 children managed as outpatients presented with cutaneous abscesses on the same day. Because of the distinctive clinical ...