Meet Staphylococcus aureus, the ultimate microscopic escape artist that invades, adapts, tricks, and thrives within our ...

The enemy in this case (as in most U.S. outbreaks of in-hospital infection) were resistant strains of the common Staphylococcus aureus, usually found in boils and infected wounds. Scene of the ...

As a researcher who's been studying MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) for some time, Fritz has been wanting to get to the bottom of this. Staph bacteria is known to reside on the skin ...

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Vancomycin ...

Abstract: To investigate the effect of lactoferrin or lactoferricin with or without penicillin G, light and transmission electron microscopy were performed on thin sections of two Staphylococcus ...

You’ll most likely have heard of MRSA, a methicillin-resistant form of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus that can cause serious infections. However, drug-resistant forms of E. coli ...

A latest research reported in Engineering reveals that researchers from Fuzhou University and Hunan Agricultural University ...

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 ...

MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, but is shorthand for any strain of Staphylococcus bacteria which is resistant to one or more conventional antibiotics. Staphylococcus is a ...

What is a staphylococcal infection? Staphylococcus aureus, or “staph,” are common bacteria that normally live on the skin. The bacteria also live harmlessly in the nasal passages of roughly 30 percent ...

What Is a Staph Infection? Staph is the shortened name for Staphylococcus (staf-uh-low-KAH-kus), a type of bacteria. These bacteria live harmlessly on many skin surfaces, especially around the nose, ...