Researchers from Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C., compared demographics and mortality of infants with MRSA and MSSA at 348 neonatal intensive care units in hospitals across the ...

MSSA and MRSA are Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) bacteria with different resistance patterns. MRSA is resistant to many antibiotics and is more difficult to treat. Both types of bacteria can cause ...

Invasive methicillin-susceptible StaphylococcuS. aureus (S. aureus) infection (MSSA) caused more infections and more deaths in hospitalized infants than invasive methicillin-resistant S. aureus ...

Intervention reduces staph infections in hospital NICU: 5 things to know Researchers analyzed the effect of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus decolonization on MSSA infection incidence and ...

Research comparing clinical outcomes between patients receiving nafcillin and cefazolin for treatment of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) bacteremia shows that overall treatment ...

NEW ORLEANS — Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is responsible for a growing number of acute musculoskeletal infections, according to new research. "The spectrum of pediatric ...

A new study from the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP), with collaborators from Johns Hopkins University and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, found that ...

Drug-resistant staph infections continue to be deadlier than those that are not resistant and treatable with traditional antibiotics, but treatment costs surprisingly are the same or slightly less, a ...

More than 119,000 people were diagnosed with bloodstream Staphylococcus aureus infections in the United States in 2017, and almost 20,000 died – a significant slowing in the previously declining rates ...

(HealthDay News) — Invasive methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) infections are more common than invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections, according to a ...