One of the most feared blood infections is Staphylococcus aureus. Now researchers have learned why this bacterium is such a significant threat ...

Between 1999 and 2006, there was a 90 percent increase in the incidence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, among patients admitted to U.S. hospitals.

On an exercise bike, ABC News found sarcinia, candida specie, staphylococcus epi and diptheroids. The worst place of all was the shower floor. "Unfortunately, germs do survive in the shower, ...

Drug-resistant staph infections have traditionally been acquired in hospitals. But increasingly they are appearing in the community at large, especially where people gather in close quarters like ...

“Epi-2W should be a great research tool for understanding the skin microbiome, because ‘Staph epi’ is the quintessential human commensal skin microbe.” In experiments described in the new paper, ...

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 ...

But not everyone has a trainer watching his or her skin. The common bacteria Staphylococcus aureus is among the most common causes of skin infections. To prevent it, infectious disease experts ...

Staph germs are usually spread by skin-to-skin contact. Medical personnel, patients and visitors can spread them in the following ways, according to the National Library of Medicine : ...

Staph infections are caused by staphylococcus bacteria, germs that live on the skin or in the nose. But they can become a bigger problem — potentially even deadly — if the bacteria goes deeper ...

Staph food poisoning can lead to gastrointestinal illness caused by toxins that are produced by the bacteria, which flourish in uncooked food or food not stored at the proper temperature.