Staphylococcus bacteria live on skin and can cause a staph infection if they enter the bloodstream. Staph infections can involve a range of symptoms, like vomiting, rashes or inflamed skin, and fever.

For nurses working in hospitals, staph infections can pose a danger to patients as well as themselves. A staph infection is caused by Staphylococcus aureus, a type of bacteria. According to the Merck ...

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

A new study published in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases on November 21, 2019, shows how the superbug called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can get into a house and ...

Researchers identify exact cells mediating the mouse's defense against Staphylococcus infection (MRSA). Researchers have gained a greater understanding of the biology of staphylococcus skin infections ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has provided schools and parents with a concise summary of guidelines on how to prevent the spread of drug-resistant staph infections that have ...

Bedbugs may be able to acquire and transmit methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), according to a recent study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. MRSA is a type of bacteria ...

Biopharmaceutical company Theravance Biopharma has enrolled its first patient in a Phase 3 registrational study of telavancin’s efficacy in fighting Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia, officially ...

More than 119,000 people were diagnosed with bloodstream Staphylococcus aureus infections in the United States in 2017, and almost 20,000 died – a significant slowing in the previously declining rates ...