Less MRSA Admitted Means Fewer Acquired Infections, Study Shows When fewer patients have positive cultures for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus upon admission, transmission and infection ...

A study published in the Journal of Hospital Infection examined the effect of different surveillance frequencies on meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection rates in neonatal intensive ...

Staph, short for staphylococcus aureus, is a common skin bacterium. Normally it is not harmful, but, like all bacteria, it can be dangerous. Increasingly, staph is becoming resistant to commonly used ...

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