MSSA and MRSA are Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) bacteria with different resistance patterns. MRSA is resistant to many antibiotics and is more difficult to treat. Both types of bacteria can cause ...

Intervention reduces staph infections in hospital NICU: 5 things to know Researchers analyzed the effect of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus decolonization on MSSA infection incidence and ...

A team of Korean clinical investigators found nearly 10 percent of cases of Staphylococcus aureus infections of the blood spread to the eyeball and can severely impair vision or even cause blindness.

NEW ORLEANS — Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is responsible for a growing number of acute musculoskeletal infections, according to new research. "The spectrum of pediatric ...

Research comparing clinical outcomes between patients receiving nafcillin and cefazolin for treatment of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) bacteremia shows that overall treatment ...

Cefazolin is a first‐generation cephalosporin widely used in the treatment of infections caused by methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA). Its favourable safety profile and reduced risk ...

Background: Culturing of the sonication fluid of removed implants has proven to be more sensitive than conventional periprosthetic tissue culture for the microbiological diagnosis of prosthetic joint ...

Researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Janssen Biotech, Inc. have shown in early tests that a bioengineered drug candidate can counter infection with Staphylococcus aureus – a bacterial ...

Testosterone can potentiate S. aureus quorum sensing independent of auto-inducing peptides, increasing toxin release and host-cell damage, whereas progesterone and estrogen do not show the same effect ...

MRSA infections can cause problems throughout your body. This antibiotic-resistant type of staph is also a common cause of eye infections. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a type ...