Science news articles about 'superbug infection'

Sinks installed in hospital rooms to prevent infections actually turned out to be the source of a superbug infection that killed 12 people, doctors in Toronto say.

... for catheter insertions at intensive-care units. Bloodstream infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus , or ...

... 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 today (Tuesday 31 ...

Three babies born in the last three weeks at Charlottetown's Queen Elizabeth Hospital have tested positive for antibiotic-resistant bacteria, just weeks after an outbreak was declared over.

Three Quebec soldiers who recently returned from Afghanistan are in a Quebec city hospital with a rare drug-resistant bacteria, while two civilians may have also contracted it.