When bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, it makes it more difficult to treat diseases caused by those bacteria and limits the treatment options ... of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ...

The towels we dry ourselves with get a lot of use and pick up a lot of microbes along the way. But how long should you wait ...

In a new study published in the journal The Lancet, researchers have explored the possibility of treating acute, ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a type of bacteria that ... reinforcing the utility of nasal swabs in guiding antibiotic treatment decisions[2]. These findings highlight ...

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2008;27(1):67-68. The rapid emergence of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has required important changes in the empiric choice of ...

The history of antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus ... that have prompted the development of newer agents for the treatment of MRSA disease. Moreover, the emergence of vancomycin-intermediate ...

Antibiotic and antifungal drug resistance pose a major public health threat. Live Science is covering the spread of this problem and the potential solutions that are emerging in turn. A crisis ...

A clinical trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that the oral antibiotic levofloxacin ... in South Africa and involved the same treatment in children.

Imagine that the next time you catch a stomach bug and antibiotics fail to work ... actually wanted to see a case like Tom’s. Tom’s treatment worked well [as a proof of principle] because ...

The MRSA superbug has evolved into 'fitter' strains which could prove even more resistant to treatment ... already become resistant to most common antibiotics, making it difficult to treat ...