HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — An outbreak of the antibiotic-resistant infection MRSA circulated in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital for more than three years and ...

Individuals who carry MRSA can spread the bacteria to others, causing an infection, particularly if they have open wounds where bacteria can enter.

The story of MRSA begins just four years after methicillin ... In community settings, prevention focuses on wound care, hand hygiene, avoiding shared personal items like razors and towels, and ...

Doctors can effectively treat most MRSA skin infections using certain non-methicillin oral antibiotics. Draining and cleaning the wound can also help reduce the risk of the infection spreading to ...

wound infections, and, in severe cases, pneumonia or sepsis. Resistance: MRSA is dangerous because it is resistant to most common antibiotics. This means that infections caused by MRSA are harder ...

The title of the presentation is, ‘Inhibition of MRSA Infection by Exeporfinium Chloride (XF-73) in an In Vivo Burn Wound Model.’ The data was generated from a study in which XF-73 was applied ...

The Brighton, England-based clinical phase biotechnology company focused on developing novel anti-infectives said data from a study showed XF-73 reduced MRSA infection within burn wound tissue by ...

MRSA often gets into a skin injury such as a cut, scrape, or burn. It also might infect a surgical wound. What does MRSA look like? MRSA most often appears as a skin infection, such as a boil or ...

In a recent Nature Reviews Microbiology study, researchers review how the wound microbiota interferes with skin repair processes and facilitates infection onset by modulating host immune responses.

"These in vivo data constitute an important finding that may have significant clinical implications for the management of many wound etiologies, such as burns, diabetic foot ulcers, venous leg ...

A MRSA skin infection can start as a bump on the skin that is sometimes mistaken for a spider bite, or the infection can start in an existing wound or injury. Symptoms of MRSA in the skin or soft ...