Severe MRSA infections can be fatal. Mortality rates tend to be highest in older people. Having certain underlying health ...

Multifaceted interventions to control MRSA in NICU may include admission and periodic patient screening, reinforcing hand hygiene, isolation and cohorting care and screening healthcare workers ...

Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) patients are at an especially high risk of acquiring colonization and infection by MRSA. Epidemiology of MRSA in NICU can be very complex because outbreaks can ...

MRSA is a super bacteria that can cause serious infections which are resistant to antibiotic treatments. The superbug is particularly prevalent in hospitals because patients often have an entry ...

MRSA is often acquired in hospitals, especially among high risk groups such as people in intensive care units (ICUs). Although infection control has improved, MRSA remains a serious problem if not ...

The CDC calculates a standardized infection ratio, which may take into account care location, number of patients with an existing infection, lab methods, hospital affiliation with a medical school ...

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To make MRSA matters even worse, in 2002, health care workers reported the first cases of vancomycin-resistant MRSA. In other words, even "last-resort" vancomycin doesn't always work. Therein lies ...

The study found that being colonized with an MDRO was associated with a significantly increased risk of subsequent MDRO ...

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