ATLANTA—Methicillin-resistant staph aureus (MRSA) caused more than 94,000 life-threatening infections and nearly 19,000 deaths in the United States in 2005, most of them associated with health care ...

Hospital-Associated Invasive MRSA Infections Down, Says CDC Rates of invasive MRSA infections that started in hospitals or other healthcare facilities declined an average of 9 percent annually from ...

WASHINGTON – The following is a press release from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explaining how parents and/or authority figures can prevent children from catching ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Outbreaks of skin and soft tissue infections caused by the superbug MRSA -- short for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus -- continue to be a problem, especially ...

WASHINGTON — Drug-resistant staph bacteria picked up in ordinary community settings are increasingly acquiring "superbug" powers and causing far more serious illnesses than they have in the past, ...

Infectious disease professionals are calling for greater federal funding in the face of new Centers for Disease Contral and Prevention (CDC) data outlining an uptick in antimicrobial-resistant ...

Using genome sequencing, researchers found that the infection-prevention practices of using an antibiotic ointment and ...

According to a CDC study, invasive MRSA infections beginning in hospitals declined 54 percent between 2005 and 2011 and there were 9,000 fewer deaths in hospital patients in 2011 than those in 2005, ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has created a free, downloadable poster discussing frequently asked questions about Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. To download a ...

Endocarditis can be a life threatening complication of MRSA in which the infection causes inflammation in the lining of the heart, and its valves and chambers. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus ...

In the U.S., 296 hospitals have a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection rate of zero, as based on the healthcare-associated infections dataset from CMS. The Healthcare Associated ...

The germ MRSA is reportedly being introduced by human food handlers according to a report by the CDC's journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. It adds, cooking will kill the bacteria, but consumers run ...