Sandi Delack is the president-elect of the National Association of School Nurses, based in Silver Spring, Md. Ms. Delack is also a practicing school nurse based in Rhode Island. Richard Kelley is the ...

A new way to battle bloodborne staph infections could help save lives while combating the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, according to new clinical trial results. Two intravenous doses of the ...

Nearly 120,000 people contracted bloodstream staph infections in the United States in 2017, most of them in health care facilities – and nearly 20,000 died. Progress against the most dangerous ...

The contagious bacterial infection MRSA is resistant to many antibiotics, making it difficult to treat Twelve cases of a drug-resistant staph infection have been confirmed in the neonatal intensive ...

Staph is a common cause of healthcare-associated infections in the neonatal intensive care unit, and parents who are colonized with staph may expose newborns to the bacteria. Researchers examined ...

But not everyone has a trainer watching his or her skin. The common bacteria Staphylococcus aureus is among the most common causes of skin infections. To prevent it, infectious disease experts suggest ...

Some microbes can be quite clingy. Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterial species responsible for staph infections, latches onto human skin with one of the strongest biological bonds ever recorded, ...

These facts are in keeping with the general impression gained from the current medical literature and recent meetings — namely, that the number of patients with malignant forms of staphylococcal ...

Imagine a child with eczema who scratches a patch of irritated skin. A tiny opening forms, invisible to the eye. Into that breach slips a common bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus. Subscribe to our ...