In light of Pope Francis’ pneumonia diagnosis, Dr. Leana Wen explains why older adults are especially at risk for serious ...

Japan's AMR response from 2013 to 2025 focuses on surveillance, antimicrobial stewardship, infection prevention, and research ...

A newborn baby who died in a Glasgow hospital after developing an infection was “stable” the day before she passed away, an ...

Researchers have revealed how Staphylococcus aureus bacteria extract iron from hemoglobin—a process crucial to their survival ...

A new study reveals that diabetes significantly accelerates the emergence and spread of antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus ...

The US is in the throes an unusually intense and severe flu season, with hospitalization rates topping the levels seen with ...

Patients colonized with AMR pathogens showed high risk for infection with the same pathogen for up to 2 years, indicating a time window for decolonization interventions.

Several interventions with variable rates of success have been reported regarding infection control programs to stop outbreaks or reduce MRSA endemicity in the NICU, but some aspects still remain ...

Without proper treatment, tooth infections can spread to other areas of the body, leading to serious and potentially life threatening complications. A tooth infection, or a tooth abscess ...

health control and transportation of pigs between herds. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional study of farm workers and their household members from 25 Danish pig farms positive for LA-MRSA CC398.

editorialists remind us that MRSA, now germ-of-the-moment in the press, actually causes fewer than 10% of hospital-acquired infections in the U.S. and that more broadly directed infection-control ...

The risk is variable and depends on a patient’s immune status, the local prevalence of various pathogens, and the infection control practices and antimicrobial ... Resistant Staphylococcus aureus ...