A staph infection is a type of skin infection that occurs by bacteria penetrating the skin or nose and may eventually affect internal organs. It is caused by staphylococcus bacteria and can result ...

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 ...

Tom Frieden, MD MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staph aureus, is an organism that ... who do think that their child might have a MRSA skin infection, how can they distinguish the difference between ...

Most cases involve only a minor skin infection, such as a boil, but some prove deadly. A 2007 Centers for Disease Control study reported that serious Staph aureus infections struck over 94,000 ...