Many people carry MRSA harmlessly on their skin or inside their noses. However, if the bacteria penetrates the skin, it can cause a serious infection MRSA may enter the body via a break in the ...

UCLA researchers have reported methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to be the most common cause of skin and soft tissue infection in communities across the nation In a study ...

Also, MRSA can develop resistance to mupirocin ... Do hand care products impair the effect of hand disinfectants? Experts assert that skin care is important, because cracked, dry skin can be ...

Simple hand washing. And for parents who do think that their child might have a MRSA skin infection, how can they distinguish the difference between a regular skin infection vs. MRSA? Tom Frieden ...

MRSA: The Spread of Drug Resistance In fact, there is a good chance that the staph infection you picked up from that contaminated doorknob is already antibiotic resistant. Most staph infections in ...

Methods: Children presenting to Children's Medical Center of Dallas for management of skin and soft tissue abscesses caused by culture-proved CA-MRSA were prospectively followed. We analyzed data ...