Over the past several months, we have received dozens of questions about multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). In particular, readers have asked about methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ...
MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. It is one of many strains of a bacterium called Staphylococcus aureus -- or staph, for short. Staph bacteria are common on skin and inside ...
Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterium that commonly grows on the skin. If bacteria enter the skin, a staph infection may develop. MRSA causes a type of staph infection that can be hard to treat due to ...
MRSA, first identified in 1960, became a major cause of healthcare-associated infection with the emergence of epidemic strains EMRSA 15 and 16 in the 1990s. MRSA bacteraemia surveillance in England ...
Editor’s Note: This page has been retired and is no longer being updated. Here is some background information about MRSA. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria are resistant to ...
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