In addition, the relatively short follow-up makes it impossible to determine if treatment had an impact on recurrence, treatment failure or re-infection, especially in chronic skin conditions.

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

Now penicillin antibiotics are used to treat a variety of infections, including skin infections. However some people are ... difficile and methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). They are ...

Staph infections range from minor skin infections to life-threatening body-wide ... This means that only certain antibiotics will work to fight MRSA. One common treatment for MRSA is a medication ...

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

As with penicillin, only a year passed after this semi-synthetic penicillin was released before methicillin-resistant Staph aureus (MRSA ... involve only a minor skin infection, such as a boil ...

“Not only will our advancements in medicine be at risk, but we may find ourselves back to where we were in the pre-antibiotic era, when mortality from simple skin/soft tissue infections was ...

It's only meant for use on the skin. (Photo Credit ... resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a type of staph infection that's resistant to many antibiotics. Researchers have looked into ...

In recent weeks the deaths of four patients at Glasgow hospitals - three of them babies or children - have been linked with infections ... widely-used antibiotics - MRSA actually stands for ...

Basilea will seek approval of ceftobiprole for SAB as well as acute bacterial skin and skin structure infection (ABSSSI ... % of the total market for anti-MRSA antibiotics, so FDA approval ...

As antimicrobial resistance threatens medical progress, doctors like Sylvia Omulo are looking for clues to help us heal.

this review found evidence for the use of topical antibiotics for impetigo and prevention of skin infections, althougdata are limited. Further research is needed to establish the value of topical ...