Infection Control Today - Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA)

High Levels of MRSA Bacteria Found in Retail Meat Products

Retail pork products in the United States have a higher prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria (MRSA) than previously identified, according to new research by the University of Iowa College of Public Health and the Institute for Agriculture and ...More

3 weeks ago

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Study Suggests Use of Antimicrobial Scrubs May Reduce Bacterial Burden on Healthcare Worker Apparel

The use of antimicrobial-impregnated scrubs combined with good hand hygiene is effective in reducing the burden of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on healthcare workers’ apparel and may potentially play a role in decreasing the risk of MRSA transmission ...More

3 weeks ago

Posted in News, Hand Hygiene, PPE & Standard Precautions

Researchers Find Four Prognostic Variables as Risk Factors for HA-MRSA Infection in ICU

Healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (HA-MRSA) infection in intensive care unit (ICU) patients prolongs ICU stay and causes high mortality. Predicting HA-MRSA infection on admission can strengthen precautions against MRSA transmission. Kazuma ...More

4 weeks ago

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Researchers Evaluate the Clinical Effectiveness of Rapid Tests for MRSA

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is often resistant to multiple classes of antibiotics. Julie Polisena, of the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and colleagues, conducted a systematic review to evaluate the ...More

December 13, 2011

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

International MRSA Testing Week Awareness Campaign is Announced

MRSA Survivors Network, the patient and consumer advocate organization, is launching its new global awareness campaign – International MRSA Testing Week, April 1-7, an annual designated observance to raise awareness for active detection (screening) for MRSA to surgical and ...More

November 30, 2011

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MRSA: From a Nosocomial Pathogen to an Omnipresent Source of Infection

In German hospitals, each year 132,000 patients contract infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). For more than a decade, different countries have reported an increasing incidence of MRSA infections in the general population (community-associated ...More

November 29, 2011

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

Study Finds Co-Infection with MRSA Increased H1N1 Death Risk Eight-Fold

During the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, many previously healthy children became critically ill, developing severe pneumonia and respiratory failure, sometimes fatal. The largest nationwide investigation to date of influenza in critically ill children, led by Children's ...More

November 8, 2011

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

Mapping MRSA's Family Tree

Present-day methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) might have been worse if it had descended directly from a 1950s version of the bug, according to a study co-authored by Barry N. Kreiswirth, PhD, a professor at the Public Health Research Institute of UMDNJ-New ...More

October 26, 2011

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

World MRSA Day Kickoff Event and Global MRSA Summit Live Broadcast Slated for October 1

Dr. Jorge Parada, associate professor, infectious disease at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, will be joined by Dr. William Jarvis, formerly of the CDC, on Oct. 1 World MRSA Day at Loyola. Fifty years ago this October, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus ...More

September 29, 2011

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

MSSA Carriage Reduces the Odds of MRSA Acquisition by Half in ICUs

Harboring sensitive strains may prevent acquisition of resistant pathogens by competing for colonization of ecological niches. Competition may be relevant to decolonization strategies that eliminate sensitive strains and may predispose to acquiring resistant strains in ...More

September 16, 2011

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

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