As part of its five-year national program to improve MRSA prevention practices across healthcare facilities, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has published a prevention toolkit for ...

Learn what MRSA colonization is, how it differs from infection, why MRSA is dangerous, and how to manage it in hospitals and at home. Get tips on prevention, treatment, and hygiene.

An infection prevention and control report, which outlined action being taken to manage the superbug, was discussed by the ...

MRSA (pronounced MUR-suh), seen here as purple spheres, is the abbreviation for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, an antibiotic-resistant bacterium that can cause a severe infection in ...

A major cause of hospital-acquired infections, the super bacteria Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), not only exhibits strong resistance to existing antibiotics but also forms a ...

New research from scientists at the University of Sheffield and elsewhere shows that methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) relies on two co-dependent mechanisms to survive exposure to ...

Of 626 nursing homes, there were 2,824 cases of MRSA; 82% of facilities had more than one case. The 20% of nursing homes with the highest MRSA rates made up for 50% of MRSA infections in nursing ...