Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA)

Slide Show: Decolonization and MRSA Reduction

A new study shows that using germ-killing soap and ointment on all ICU patients can reduce bloodstream infections by up to 44 percent and significantly reduce the presence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). ...More
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Risk Score Identifies Patients Presenting with Pneumonia at Low Risk for MRSA

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) represents an important pathogen in healthcare-associated pneumonia (HCAP). The concept of HCAP, though, may not perform well as a screening test for MRSA and can lead to overuse of antibiotics. Shorr, et al. (2013) ...More
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Researchers Investigate Rate of Patients Missed by MRSA Screening Programs

Targeted screening of patients at high risk for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriage is an important component of MRSA control programs, which rely on prediction tools to identify those high-risk patients. Most previous risk studies reported a ...More
2 weeks ago
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CDC Study Shows Prevention Strategy Cuts MRSA Rates

A new study published online Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrates the effectiveness of using antimicrobial soap and ointment on all intensive-care unit (ICU) patients to reduce the burden of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and ...More
3 weeks ago
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Duke to Co-Lead NIH Research Network on Antibacterial Resistance

Investigators at Duke Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have been selected to oversee a nationwide research program on antibacterial resistance, which includes a focus on the growing unmet challenges associated with methicillin-resistant ...More
3 weeks ago
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CDC's John Jernigan Discusses Landmark REDUCE MRSA Trial

Today, on CDC's Safe Healthcare Blog, John Jernigan, MD, director of CDC’s Office of Prevention Research and Evaluation and head of CDC’s Prevention Epicenters Program, provides insight into how a collaboration between public health, academia, and a health system took a ...More
3 weeks ago
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Study Shows How MRSA Infections in the Sickest Hospital Patients Were Reduced

Using germ-killing soap and ointment on all intensive-care unit (ICU) patients can reduce bloodstream infections by up to 44 percent and significantly reduce the presence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in ICUs. A new Department of Health and Human ...More
3 weeks ago
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REDUCE MRSA Trial Lead Author Discusses Landmark Paper in CDC's Healthcare Blog

Today, on CDC's Safe Healthcare blog, lead author of the REDUCE MRSA trial, Dr. Susan Huang, discusses the results of the landmark study and provides insight into what the findings mean for infection prevention and patient safety. The REDUCE MRSA trial found that using ...More
3 weeks ago
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Researchers are Attacking MRSA With Metals From Antibacterial Clays

In the race to protect society from infectious microbes, the bugs are outrunning us. The need for new therapeutic agents is acute, given the emergence of novel pathogens as well as old foes bearing heightened antibiotic resistance. Shelley Haydel, a researcher at Arizona ...More
5 weeks ago
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Sequencing Tracks Animal-to-Human Transmission of Bacterial Pathogens

Researchers have used whole genome sequencing to reveal if drug-resistant bacteria are transmitted from animals to humans in two disease outbreaks that occurred on different farms in Denmark. The results, which are published today in EMBO Molecular Medicine, confirm ...More
March 25, 2013
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