A recent study published in the American Journal of Infection Control suggests the combination of a throat swab and nasal swab may boost MRSA surveillance, especially among younger patients. For this ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A simpler one-swab-per nostril iodophor regimen produced identical reductions in MRSA carriage among nursing ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A negative MRSA nasal swab could help clinicians determine whether to withhold or discontinue MRSA treatment ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus (MRSA) nasal colonization is associated with longer hospital stays and an increase in surgical site infections (SSI) in patients undergoing major gastrointestinal ...

The perceived need to swab the noses of pregnant women and newborns for the presence of MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) may be unfounded, according to a new study. It is often ...

One of Ulster's highest profile doctors called today for all frontline medics to be "routinely tested" for MRSA - in a bid to stop the rising spread of superbugs in hospitals here. One of Ulster's ...

A simple phone call from the Royal Berkshire Hospital revealed Evening Post reporter Fiona Gray tested negative for the super bug MRSA on Friday. Miss Gray was swab tested for MRSA as part of a new ...

SWABBING incoming hospital patients for MRSA has significantly reduced infections of the superbug, according to health bosses. So far this year there has only been one case of the superbug, and in the ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new, faster diagnostic test based on bacterial viability and a novel technology to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) ...

Dental students in a Seattle study had very high rates of colonization with MRSA, the drug-resistant strain of staph, raising new questions about the prevalence of the bacteria outside of hospitals in ...

Testosterone can potentiate S. aureus quorum sensing independent of auto-inducing peptides, increasing toxin release and host-cell damage, whereas progesterone and estrogen do not show the same effect ...

Every patient going into hospital for an operation will be screened for the superbug MRSA from tomorrow. And anyone who refuses to take the test could end up having their treatment delayed, ministers ...