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News: May 28, 2012
MRSA Infections May Vary by Season
TUESDAY, March 29 (HealthDay News) -- Dangerous methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, infections occur more often in the summer and fall, and this seasonal increase is more common in children than adults, a new study reports. The f...
Better Cleaning in ICUs Lowers MRSA Infection Rates
TUESDAY, March 29 (HealthDay News) -- Enhanced cleaning of hospital intensive care units reduces the risk of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection for patients placed in a room previously occupied by someone with MRSA, a new...
Nose May Be Best Place to Screen for MRSA Infection
FRIDAY, Jan. 7 (HealthDay News) -- A new study finds that people with high levels of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria in the nose are more likely to have other areas of the body colonized by MRSA, which can cause potenti...
MRSA Creeping Into Hospitals From the Outside
TUESDAY, Nov. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Strains of antibiotic-resistant infections normally found in the community are increasingly showing up among hospital outpatients, raising the risk that inpatients could become infected, new research says. From...
MRSA Cases Dropping in Hospital ICUs
TUESDAY, Feb. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Blood infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have dropped significantly in hospital intensive care units, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention re...
MRSA Infections Spreading to Kids in Community
MONDAY, Jan. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Antibiotic-resistant infections around the head and neck are on the rise among American children, a new report indicates. The finding suggests that tougher strains of the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus -- referr...
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