Bacteria from cows has shown "promising" results in treating hospital superbugs. The farmyard favorites carry a microbe that ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacteria that causes infections in different parts of the body. It's tougher to treat than most strains of Staphylococcus aureus (staph) because ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) emerged long before the introduction of the antibiotic methicillin into clinical practice, according to a new study. It was the widespread use of ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is a strain of staph bacteria that is resistant to the antibiotics normally used to treat such infections. Doctors then started using methicillin ...

The multiple antibiotic resistance of methicillin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has become a major clinical problem worldwide. The key determinant of the broad-spectrum β-lactam ...

Here is some background information about MRSA. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria are resistant to all beta-lactam antibiotics such as methicillin, penicillin, oxacillin and ...

WHEN the results of a gram stain or culture of material in a serious case of staphylococcal infection become known, and before the susceptibility of the organism has been determined, the physician is ...

Could a 1,000-year-old concoction be the answer to stopping superbugs? Christina Lee, an Anglo-Saxon expert at the University of Nottingham, found the recipe for a remedy for eye infections in a 10th ...

The introduction of methicillin into clinical practice is not what caused the emergence of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), report researchers. According to a collaborative study by ...

The MRSA bacterium that plagues many hospitals had evolved resistance to the antibiotic methicillin before the drug was even discovered. Matthew Holden at the University of St Andrews in Scotland and ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Infections with the bacteria methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have declined in ...