You may have heard of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, which are challenging to treat. Methicillin-resistant ...

If you have a staph infection or staph bacteria on your skin, you can also transmit it to other people — through skin-to-skin contact or on objects where the bacteria live, like towels or bed ...

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 ...