cSSSI: Complicated skin and skin-structure infection; ESBL ... aureus, have been recently developed. Novel antibiotics, such as linezolid, daptomycin and tigecycline, have been successfully ...

Staph infections that are not effectively treated with antibiotics can spread into the blood, tissues, and organs. These ...

If MRSA bacteria enter the skin, an infection can develop ... is a type of staph bacteria that is highly resistant to common antibiotics. Many people carry the MRSA bacteria harmlessly on their ...

Almost as fast as new antibiotics are marketed ... Reduction in the overall number of staph infections picked up by patients after they got to the hospital was slight, Dr. Barber concedes in ...

Complementary discoveries have the potential to enhance treatment options for antibiotic-resistant infections. Researchers at ...

Any one of those mutations could give your staph infection the capacity to continue replicating, even in the presence of the antibiotic. All it takes is a single mutated S. aureus—one that ...

p = 0.005), total antibiotic exposure decreased 43.5 hours (97.6 vs 54.1 hours; p = 0.011), infection-related LOS decreased 4.5 days (10 vs 5.5 days; p = 0.018), and infection-related costs ...