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 ...

British physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin nearly 100 years ago, was the first to warn of the dangers of antibiotic ... of skin and bloodstream infections ...

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 ...