Background: The rise in community-onset methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections potentially complicates the empiric management of cellulitis. The threshold at which drugs ...

Under the base-case assumptions and over most of the range of our sensitivity analysis, therapy with cephalexin was more cost-effective than using drugs with activity against MRSA (clindamycin ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is the same bacteria, but a strain that is resistant to certain commonly used antibiotics (drugs that prevent the growth of or kill bacteria). This ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has traditionally been considered a global pathogen (Gallagher et al., 2017). Indeed, most of the available studies have described the genetic ...

If you or someone you know has had Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), you may be wondering, is MRSA contagious? Unfortunately, MRSA infections can also lead to much more serious ...

Type 2 diabetes increases the risk of infections. This higher risk may be due to several factors, such as the effects of ...

This medicine is available only with a doctor's prescription. Do not use Dalacin V Cream if you have an allergy to clindamycin or lincomycin or any of the ingredients in Dalacin V Cream listed at ...

All this prompts the search for new methods of therapy. Advanced periodontitis with multiple abscesses is often treated with antibiotics, such as amoxicillin, tetracycline, doxycycline, minocycline, ...

A carbuncle is a cluster of boils (furuncles) that form under the skin's surface when bacteria infect hair follicles (tiny openings on your skin through which hairs grow). Carbuncles appear as red, ...

Two hundred and sixty-three hospitals in the U.S. have a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection rate of zero, as based on the healthcare-associated infections dataset from CMS.

Objective Daptomycin, a cyclic lipopeptide that exhibits rapid, concentration-dependent bactericidal activity in vitro against a broad spectrum of Gram-positive pathogens, has now, since 2003, been ...