Nearly 120,000 people contracted staph infections in the United States in 2017, most of them in health care facilities – and nearly 20,000 died ...

Healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections continue to be a serious problem in hospitals around the world, causing thousands of deaths every year. Many ...

But since the VA started screening every patient for MRSA, infection rates at the facility dropped to 0.09 infections per 1,000 bed days of care, compared with 1.89 infections per 1,000 in 2008.

The third group was the only group that had a significant reduction in MRSA detections, Huang said, down 37%. Looking at numbers of bloodstream infections of any kind in the patients, she said ...

Antibiotic use aids MRSA spread in hospital and infection control measures do little to prevent it, says hospital study. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases ...

April 10, 2012 — California hospitals appear to have significantly lower rates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bloodstream infection if their infection control directors ...

At the Louisville VA hospital%2C MRSA infections have fallen to 0.09 infections per 1%2C000 days patients stay in a bed%2C compared with 1.89 infections per 1%2C000 in 2008 Some non-VA hospitals ...

IPCPs Adopting Stronger Interventions but Say Facilities Must Do More WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A poll of infection prevention professionals conducted six months after the ...

MRSA is a significant concern in both community and health care settings, as it can cause serious and potentially life-threatening infections that are challenging to control. A staph infection is ...

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 ...

The use of a commonly prescribed antibiotic is a major contributor to the spread of infection in hospitals by the 'superbug' MRSA, according to new research. The study also found that increasing ...