Staphylococcus bacteria live on skin and can cause a staph infection if they enter the bloodstream. Staph infections can involve a range of symptoms, like vomiting, rashes or inflamed skin ...

Impetigo is a bacterial infection that affects your skin ... Each type goes through a series of stages. Strains of Staphylococcus (staph) or Streptococcus (strep) bacteria cause impetigo.

In US NICUs, incidence of invasive Staphylococcus aureus infection was 20 times higher in very low birth weight infants than ...

Most cases involve only a minor skin infection, such as a boil, but some prove deadly. A 2007 Centers for Disease Control study reported that serious Staph aureus infections struck over 94,000 ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is well known as one of the most frequent etiological agents of healthcare-associated infections. The epidemiology of MRSA is evolving with ...

Thank you for being here, Dr. Frieden. Let’s talk about MRSA infections. They are hard to treat. And more and more parents are worried about the prevention of these. Especially those who have ...

Many studies have described dramatic localized outbreaks of cutaneous infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the U.S. (Journal Watch Mar 31 2006), but it's not clear ...