Impact of MRSA Nasal Colonization on SSIs After Gastrointestinal Surgery 
Infection Control Today
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal colonization is associated with longer hospital stays and an increase in surgical site infections (SSI) in patients undergoing major gastrointestinal surgery, according to a new study from Scott ...

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Staph infection puts a scare into Bay City's Burk 
Victoria Advocate
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection is caused by a strain of staph bacteria that's become resistant to the antibiotics commonly used to treat ordinary staph infections. Most MRSA infections occur in people who have been in ...
Bacterial Resistance To Drugs Creates Window Of Opportunity For Biopharma Firms Seeking Alpha

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Staphylococcus and you 
The Nation
Staphylococcal bacteria produce illnesses directly by causing infection or indirectly by producing toxins that are responsible for food poisoning and toxic shock syndrome. Some species of staphylococcal bacteria can be present on the skin and in the ...

 

South Carolina woman battles flesh-eating bacterial disease 
Reuters
"Sometimes the group-A strep causes strep throat. Sometimes the staph causes a skin infection. Rarely, people can become infected in a place that's usually sterile - heart, lung, tissue under the skin - and have group-A strep where it shouldn't be.

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MRSA: The antibiotic-resistant bug that has health officials worried 
Fox News
MRSA is an acronym for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a strain of common bacteria that is resistant to antibiotics. Methicillin, an antibiotic of the penicillin class, was formerly used to treat staph infections but is now only used in ...
Antibiotic Resistance Spreads Through Environment, Threatens Modern Medicine Huffington Post
Derrick Adams: Sometimes you should give antibiotics a rest Record-Searchlight

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Superbug Travels from Hospital to Hospital 
Medical Daily
Antibiotic-resistant staph infection continues to plague the medical community but scientists are beginning to understand how it spreads. Big city hospitals act as a gateway for staph infection to spread to smaller hospitals. By Charles Poladian | May ...
Big City Hospitals Act as 'Hub' for Superbugs dailyRx
Large city hospitals 'breed and spread' MRSA BBC News
Combination of MRSA and Influenza Results in Multiple Deaths Environmental Expert (press release)
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Bel Marra Health Supports Recent Research by the Centers for Disease Control ... 
Houston Chronicle
Additionally, bacterial infections can occur after influenza. An example of one of the serious bacterial infections that can accompany influenza is Staphylococcus aureus (Staph.) Currently, the CDC is working with public health authorities to monitor ...

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An extracellular Staphylococcus epidermidis polysaccharide: relation to ... 
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
The skin commensal and opportunistic pathogen Staphylococcus epidermidis is a leadingcause of hospital-acquired and biomaterial-associated infections. The polysaccharideintercellular adhesin (PIA), a homoglycan composed of beta-1,6-linked ...

 

Texas Study: MRSA Screening Stems Infections, Saves Money 
Infectious Disease Special Edition
by Kate O'Rourke Houston?An active methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) program in an intensive care unit (ICU) can have a significant effect on MRSA infection rates and also saves money, according to a recent study.

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MRSA Infections May Lose Their Resistance 
MedPage Today
Explain that review of a single-center's Staphylococcus aureus culture data from skin and soft tissue infections found that methicillin-resistance disappeared -- at least temporarily -- in nearly a third of cases. Note that cultures were obtained 30 ...
MRSA Comes To Monmouth County - But What Is It? [AUDIO] New Jersey 101.5 FM Radio

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