Breaches of infection control protocol may have contributed to three patients who were infected with MRSA after receiving epidural shots at a West Virginia outpatient pain clinic, according to a study ...

During the COVID pandemic, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in acute care hospitals rose steeply, despite a decrease of infections before the pandemic, the Society for ...

The more often a hospital can check its newborns for deadly MRSA germs, the more likely it will be that they are contained, according to a new study. However, researchers noted that there are ...

Implementing a program to reduce methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus was more effective when all hospitals in a region took part compared with implementation at an individual hospital, ...

LEXINGTON USA, UNITED STATES, September 29, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Private sector facilities in the United States have experienced a resurgence of Methicillin ...

Mupirocin twice daily to each nostril for the 5 days before the day of surgery Two applications of nasal iodophor (at least 5%) to each nostril within 2 hours before surgery Facilities can choose to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Fewer MRSA health care-associated infections were reported when facilities practiced active surveillance and ...

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 ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is back with a vengeance. Not that the staph infection that often keeps antibiotics at bay ever left during the COVID-19 pandemic. But its resurgence ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - While rates of drug-resistant staph infections appear to be on the rise in society in general, hospitals are making progress at curbing at least one source of infection in some of ...

Outbreaks of skin and soft tissue infections caused by the superbug MRSA — short for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus — continue to be a problem, especially among high school football teams ...