Currently, there are promising new topical antibiotics, including mupirocin and retapamulin, seeking indication for bacterial skin infections. These topical antibiotics may have a role in the ...

Many patients presenting to the emergency room with skin and soft tissue infections were found to be having MRSA infection that was resistant to traditional antibiotics, such as cephalexin and ...

Doctors can effectively treat most MRSA skin infections using certain non-methicillin oral antibiotics. Draining and cleaning the wound can also help reduce the risk of the infection spreading to ...

Doctors can treat most MRSA skin infections using non-methicillin oral antibiotics. Draining the wound can also help reduce the risk of systemic infection. In the meantime, the California ...

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 ...

Staph infections range from minor skin infections to life-threatening ... This means that only certain antibiotics will work ...

Medically reviewed by Susan Bard, MD Having psoriasis, an autoimmune condition that causes inflamed skin patches, can make ...

US scientists have discovered a new family of antibiotics in soil samples ... on rats that they had given MRSA and it eliminated the infection in skin wounds. The researchers are now working ...

Basilea will seek approval of ceftobiprole for SAB as well as acute bacterial skin and skin structure infection (ABSSSI ... % of the total market for anti-MRSA antibiotics, so FDA approval ...

As with penicillin, only a year passed after this semi-synthetic penicillin was released before methicillin-resistant Staph aureus (MRSA ... involve only a minor skin infection, such as a boil ...

Bacteria on the animals' skin developed antibiotic resistance ... MecC-MRSA causes about one in 200 human MRSA infections. The overuse of antibiotics, both in humans and farm animals, continues ...

this review found evidence for the use of topical antibiotics for impetigo and prevention of skin infections, althougdata are limited. Further research is needed to establish the value of topical ...