In US NICUs, incidence of invasive Staphylococcus aureus infection was 20-times higher in very low birth weight infants than ...

Pneumonia caused by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most dangerous infections that can occur in hospital.

They may also lance and drain a staph skin infection. Important: Some strains of staph called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are resistant to the most commonly used antibiotics.

Children and adolescents were at higher risk for new-onset mild and moderate chronic kidney disease from 2020 to 2023.

Staph aureus is immediately recognizable when viewed under a microscope: clusters of spherical bacteria that, when stained ...

Boils, also known as furuncles, are painful, red, pus-filled bumps that form on the skin, usually around hair follicles or ...

Gut microbiota composition and sex hormones influence the immune response to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus gastrointestinal colonization in mice.

Any one of those mutations could give your staph infection the capacity to continue replicating, even in the presence of the antibiotic. All it takes is a single mutated S. aureus—one that ...

Most cases involve only a minor skin infection, such as a boil, but some prove deadly. A 2007 Centers for Disease Control study reported that serious Staph aureus infections struck over 94,000 ...

Drug-resistant infections—especially from deadly bacteria like tuberculosis and staph—are a growing global health crisis. These infections are harder to treat, often require more expensive or ...