SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - A staph infection led to the amputation of a 3-year-old boy's legs weeks after his family arrived in San Diego for a vacation. The Baumkirschners and some friends arrived in their ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a blood culture test that can determine if Staphylococcus aureus bacteria infections are methicillin resistant (MRSA) or methicillin susceptible ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Fifteen operating room staffers at Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital, including surgeons and nurses, did not participate in surgery for a week to 11 days in August after testing positive for the ...

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 ...

Infection control efforts in US hospitals have reduced rates of Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections, but progress has slowed in recent years, health officials with the Centers for Disease ...

Staph infections remain a problem among infants, even the strains that are not resistant to drugs, a new study shows. The study cites estimates that around 5,000 babies will develop severe staph ...

Collaborative Infection Control Benefits All Regional Hospitals Household contacts of children with Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI) appear to have higher rates ...

Restriction-modification systems are important defenses against interspecies and even intraspecies uptake of exogenous and potentially harmful (e.g., bacteriophage) DNA. To date, four types of ...

Family members of children who have staph infections are more likely than other people to carry drug-resistant versions of the bacteria, even though they may not have any symptoms of infection, a new ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a blood culture test that can determine if Staphylococcus aureus bacteria infections are methicillin resistant (MRSA) or methicillin susceptible ...