Any skin sore or ulcer that has these signs may be developing cellulitis. If your staph infection spreads, you may develop a fever, sometimes with chills and sweats, as well as swelling in the area.

Nearly 120,000 people contracted bloodstream staph infections in the United States in 2017, most of them in health care facilities – and nearly 20,000 died. Progress against the most ...

Doctors think of drug-resistant Staph germs as living in two different worlds. One type lives in hospitals and can defy a wide array of antibiotics. The other lives in the community and typically ...

Staphylococcus aureus—aka staph—is among the most extensively studied human pathogens. Unfortunately, that knowledge hasn't made staph infections any easier to treat, particularly in the lungs.

The claim: Face masks cause staph infections. Since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended the use of face masks in public in April, misinformation about the consequences of ...

It’s possible to get a staph infection from food poisoning, but a number of things have to happen first. This type of infection is caused by the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus, or “staph ...