A collection of experts from US medical organizations today released updated recommendations to help acute-care hospitals prevent one of the most common healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). The ...

It was in this setting—with a recent increase in CA-MRSA skin abscesses ... Many patients, realising that there is an active bacterial infection on their body, may desire, indeed insist on, ...

Uncomplicated skin infections account for almost 200 million physician-office visits in the USA annually. Treating these infections is estimated to cost in excess of US$350 million each year.

The inclusion criteria were: (1) any RCTs that compared daptomycin with other antibiotics in treating SSTIs, (2) included patients were of any age, any gender, had a complicated skin and ...

Steve Schwarz, 67, died from an MRSA infection after he stopped receiving antibiotics as prescribed. His family has been ...

Skin infections are the most common type of staph infection ... or at a certain time of day. MRSA infections and serious ...

The results of a phase 3 clinical trial show an antibiotic ... skin-structure infections (ABSSSIs) and community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP). "Our completed Phase III programme demonstrates ...

Whenever possible, the narrowest spectrum antibiotics should be used to treat an identified MRSA infection and, when it is cured, they should be discontinued as soon as possible. Furthermore ...

Steve Schwarz underwent spinal surgery, only to later succumb to MRSA due to discontinuation of antibiotics at a care home.

Always use a clean washcloth each time. Occasionally, a stye will need a topical antibiotic. Teens who get a staph infection on skin areas that are normally shaved should stop shaving until the ...

MRSA is a serious infection resistant to many antibiotics, but it can be treated ... Schwarz returned to the hospital with red swollen skin. Steve Schwarz’s case was revealed late last year ...