MRSA is a type of bacteria that can be resistant to several antibiotics. MRSA might spread more easily in athletic settings. Preventing MRSA infections is crucial to athletes' health and safety. Skin ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is a type of bacteria that can cause infections and is resistant to several antibiotics. Doctors and nurses sometimes refer to it as MRSA (which sounds like ...

A national analysis of physician office and emergency department records shows that the types of skin infections caused by community-acquired MRSA doubled in the eight-year study period, with the ...

Developing a MRSA infection during pregnancy is rare. MRSA is treatable but can lead to complications. If you have MRSA while pregnant, the risk to your baby is highest during delivery. Share on ...

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 ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved Dalvance (dalbavancin), an antibacterial drug used to treat adults with bacterial skin and skin structure infections. Among them are infections caused by ...

In what turned out to be one of the most important accidents of all time, Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming returned to his laboratory after a vacation in 1928 to find a clear zone surrounding ...

The patient is a 32-year-old man with HIV diagnosed in 1995 after presenting with cryptococcal meningitis. The patient recovered from the meningitis and was prescribed secondary prophylaxis with ...

Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet have made an important discovery that may explain why some people are only transient carriers of the superbug MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ...

Extracts made from the leaves of the European chestnut tree Castanea sativa have been used in traditional medicine for more than 100 years. Researchers have shown that these extracts can prevent ...