Science news articles about 'mrsa superbug'

Two experimental antibiotics from the United States and Switzerland show promising results in fighting the methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) superbug, researchers said Sunday.

Regular handwashing by hospital staff and visitors did more to prevent the spread of the MRSA superbug than isolating infected patients. At the Society for General Microbiology meeting in Harrogate ...

British scientists are working on a drug which they say can destroy the most virulent strains of superbug MRSA.

... a common intestinal bacteria currently plaguing hospitals that now rivals the superbug Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as one of the top emerging disease threats to humans. Read ...

Add the MRSA "superbug" to the list of concerns you bring to the beach nowadays.

... to hospital staff were found to be tainted with bacteria -- including the drug-resistant MRSA superbug -- and may be a source of hospital-acquired infections, according to study released Friday.

MRSA exposed to manuka honey loses the ability to reproduce, according to a new study that shows how the dark, bitter honey fights staph infections.