A mom has said her 11-day-old daughter died from an infection at an 'absolutely putrid' hospital at an inquiry into the ...

Background: Concern for MRSA in patients presented to the hospital with pneumonia may be overestimated leading to excessive prescribing of empiric anti-MRSA therapy. This study aims to identify at ...

Also, MRSA can develop resistance to mupirocin ... posting reminders and signs on patient rooms and hospital units, and offering educational programs for health care workers.

Initially, MRSA only appeared in hospitals and nursing homes, but in the past decade it has become a major public health problem, sickening otherwise healthy people in the community. Often it ...

Oregon hospitals have reported a modest decline in health care-associated infections (HAIs) among patients in 2023, according ...

Professor Hajo Grundmann, a world expert in infectious diseases, said MRSA in hospitals is already 'out of control' in many countries. But the emergence of stronger and more virulent strains could ...

MRSA: The Spread of Drug Resistance In fact ... about 60% of all staph infections were resistant to penicillin. In both the hospital and the community, antibiotic resistance has emerged as ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) data from 2012 through 2022 shows that the number of drug-resistant infections in hospitals has largely gone down, though it is still significant, according to a study ...

The study, conducted by researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found that six bacterial ...