Patients who harbor the highly contagious bacterium causing staph infections can develop serious and sometimes deadly symptoms a year or longer after initial detection, a UC Irvine infectious disease ...
... and colleagues have examined the anti-PVL antibody responses in pediatric patients diagnosed with Staph infections compared to antibody responses to other USA300 virulence factors. The study found ...
Some U.S. hospitals appear to be making progress in curbing the incidence of a drug-resistant staph infection among their sickest patients in ICU, researchers say.
... . Staph are also notorious for infecting patients while they're in the hospital for other reasons. Staph infections can be deadly if the bacteria invade the bloodstream, heart, lungs, or urinary tract ...
... their revolutionary new drug-delivery system with a powerful antimicrobial agent to treat potentially deadly drug-resistant staph infections in mice. Particles infused with nitric oxide are ...
... before, during and after infection. They also hope to understand better how various staph-infection therapies affect treatment.
"This is a very important proof-of-concept that the information is ...
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, commonly referred to as MRSA, is a type of staph that causes infections resistant to a class of common antibiotics that includes methicillin, penicillin, ...
A bacterial infection may be an overlooked cause of sudden infant death syndrome, an Australian study suggests.
CHICAGO (AP) -- More children have died from flu because they also had staph infections, according to a new government report that urges parents to have their kids get the flu shot....
Despite the recent reports of football-related staph infections, experts say they only highlight how prevalent infections are among professional athletes.
... methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections, a finding that could aid in developing therapeutics against ... infections can still be fatal.
Senior author Magnus Höök, Ph.D. and his ...
... the blood coagulation protein fibrinogen to cause methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections, a finding that could aid in developing therapeutics against the potentially deadly disease.
... . Preventing or inhibiting the growth of such biofilms would dramatically reduce the incidence of staph infections.
UC researchers in the lab of Andrew Herr, PhD, an assistant professor and Ohio ...
Researchers recently described studies that support the link between the severity of community-acquired antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections and the Panton Valentine leukocidin.
More ear, nose and throat infections fail to respond to standard treatment, researchers reported.
