An international clinical trial has identified the optimal antibiotics for golden staph bloodstream infections, a ...

Findings should ease theoretical concerns about a cefazolin inoculum effect ...

Staph infections are caused by staphylococcus bacteria, which are primarily found on the ground, human skin, and in the nose. If left untreated, the infection can prove fatal. The transmission rate of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bug bites don’t cause staph infections on their own. However, when an insect or spider bites someone, it can create an avenue for ...

Over the past few weeks, Ben Askren has been battling severe pneumonia due to a staph infection. After getting hospitalized in his home state of Wisconsin last month, he also recently underwent a ...

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Ozzy Osbourne is recovering from a deadly staph infection that recently forced him to postpone several shows of his world tour—and he believes he got it just from shaking somebody’s hand. In a recent ...

For nurses working in hospitals, staph infections can pose a danger to patients as well as themselves. A staph infection is caused by Staphylococcus aureus, a type of bacteria. According to the Merck ...

Scientists have finally found an answer to one of the great mysteries about the most deadly bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus why it attacks primarily humans and not animals. And they now have an idea ...

Researchers aiming to predict which staph-infection patients might develop a related kidney disease have found a high frequency of gene mutations in the infecting bacteria of affected patients, which ...

A new chapter in the continuing story of antibiotic resistance is being written in doctors' offices across the United States, as a group of common bacteria rapidly becomes resistant to the antibiotics ...