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 ...

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 ...

Any break in the skin increases the risk of the ... The severity of an infection can range from a soft tissue infection to life-threatening sepsis. MRSA is when is resistant to most antibiotics ...

We selected this three-year period in order to reflect current practice patterns, to reflect a period when MRSA incidence appears ... Cellulitis and abscess, comprising abscess of anal and rectal ...

When that happens, your infection will be said to be antibiotic resistant, and your physician will have to prescribe a different drug to combat it. MRSA: The Spread of Drug Resistance In fact ...

Surfaces covered in a micropattern mimicking the ridges of shark skin could reduce the spread of drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and other superbugs in hospitals. Jef Akst was managing editor of ...