A search was conducted to find clinical trials of topical antimicrobials for uSSSI. The MEDLINE database was searched for articles from 1966 through to August 2007 using the subject terms 'topical ...

People with diabetes are more prone to developing Staphylococcus aureus, a leading cause of infections and death associated ...

The strain responsible for most MRSA skin and soft-tissue infections is sensitive to many antimicrobials; daptomycin may be an alternative for systemic staph infections. Methicillin-resistant ...

Almost as fast as new antibiotics are marketed ... Reduction in the overall number of staph infections picked up by patients after they got to the hospital was slight, Dr. Barber concedes in ...

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 ... of Staph aureus had acquired resistance within a year after this pair was approved for use. With each weakened antibiotic, bacterial infections are ...

Advertisement An interaction between bacteria and diabetes could be a major force fueling the swift evolution and spread of antibiotic resistance, the researchers said. Staph is the most ...