The three-arm randomized trial was conducted at five hospitals in Pennsylvania with members of 223 households. Participants were split into three groups: those who received only education on personal ...

Facing persistent cases of hospital-onset Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) during the pandemic, the infection prevention and control (IPC) team at Children's Hospital New Orleans ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A repeated decolonization regimen successfully allowed health care workers who were previously colonized with ...

ATLANTA -- A combined intervention against recurrent Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) that included both personal periodic decolonization and home environmental hygiene ...

MRSA is an antibiotic-resistant staph infection that can be deadly for those in hospital care or with weakened immune systems. Staphylococcus aureus bacteria live in the nose without necessarily ...

New research shows that patient education and compliance are just as important as the treatment itself in household MRSA decolonization after infection Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America ...

Orlando, Fla., June 26, 2023 – Facing persistent cases of hospital-onset Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) during the pandemic, the infection prevention and control (IPC) team at ...

During the COVID pandemic, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in acute care hospitals rose steeply, despite a decrease of infections before the pandemic, the Society for ...

Universal decolonization of intensive care unit patients was the most effective method for reducing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus rates in the intensive care unit, according to a study ...

We use an extended version of a previously described stochastic simulation model. [10] The model contains three hospitals of 693 beds, each with an extramural population of 220,000 subjects. Patients ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Hexachlorophene and mupirocin do not effectively remove colonies of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from people with HIV, a new study shows. "For several years ...

Aiming to Provide a Novel Solution Against Post-Operative MRSA Infections Demonstrated its Efficacy and Safety through previous Clinical Trials Company seeks global partners to co-develop toward ...