Usually, it does not cause problems, but it can lead to several types of infections when it gets under the skin, in the blood ...

However, if the bacteria enter the skin or bloodstream through cuts or open wounds, you may develop an ... This means that only certain antibiotics will work to fight MRSA. One common treatment for ...

aureus, you decide to go to the local health center to have your wound ... said to be antibiotic resistant, and your physician will have to prescribe a different drug to combat it. MRSA: The ...

In addition, the relatively short follow-up makes it impossible to determine if treatment had an ... of infection in minor wounds, and with increasing MRSA infections it is a concern as to how ...

Colistin began being used in the 1950s to treat serious lung, wound and ... a family of antibiotic known as gram-positive bacteria, which includes common superbugs Clostridium difficile and ...

US scientists have discovered a new family of antibiotics in soil ... compound on rats that they had given MRSA and it eliminated the infection in skin wounds. The researchers are now working ...

Staphylococcus aureus, mostly known from its antibiotic-resistant variant Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), is among the leading causes of both community- and hospital-acquired ...

VTT has developed a skin spray, based on nanocellulose and antimicrobial compounds from wild berries, which can be used to treat wounds and eliminate hospital-acquired bacteria such as MRSA before ...

The Telegraph spoke to Vanessa Carter, who battled a recurrent MRSA infection that ... Without a robust pipeline of new antibiotics, there are dwindling treatment options in the face of rising ...

Doctors were able to give him a special, more expensive, and high-powered IV antibiotic, one that does work on MRSA, called vancomycin ... test to be able to get treatment, the right treatment ...

Further research is needed to establish the value of topical antibiotics and indications for their use with infected dermatitis and established wounds.