Using a new strategy, researchers were able to reduce the challenging MRSA infection in the wounds of diabetic mice by 94%. They were able to completely sterilize the wounds in several of the mice ...

Diabetes is a global epidemic, and its complications—particularly chronic wounds—are both debilitating and costly.

There has been a dramatic increase in the number of cases of Canadians becoming infected or colonized by the superbug MRSA since 1995, both in hospitals and within the community, a study has found.

There were 5.2 cases of MRSA per 1,000 hospital admissions in 2005, up from two per 1,000 in 1999. There was also an upward trend in C. difficile infections, and the number of hospitals reporting ...

How can a MRSA Infection be prevented? A number of prevention strategies are recommended to avoid becoming infected with MRSA. Cover your wounds with clean, dry bandages until healed.

MRSA has become a major health care problem because these bacteria can become threatening under certain circumstances, such as in immunocompromised patients or in infected wounds, and because they ...

The data was generated from a study in which XF-73 was applied directly onto a methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infected burn wound with subsequent monitoring of the spread of the ...

MRSA has become a major health care problem because these bacteria can become threatening under certain circumstances, such as in immunocompromised patients or in infected wounds, and because they ...

MRSA tends to appear as a skin infection, like a boil, but it depends on where you’ve been infected. The wound would look swollen, red, painful or pus filled.