One common treatment for MRSA is a medication called Vancocin ... can cause organ damage or failure if not treated in time. Skin infections are the most common type of staph infection.

The MRSA superbug has evolved into 'fitter' strains which could prove even more resistant to treatment ... it can cause an infection that could kill someone already weakened by illness.

Telavancin, a lipoglycopeptide, was recently approved by the FDA for the treatment of skin infections associated with MRSA and is being evaluated for the treatment of hospital-associated pneumonia.

In addition, the relatively short follow-up makes it impossible to determine if treatment had an impact on recurrence, treatment failure or re-infection, especially in chronic skin conditions.

Steve Schwarz underwent spinal surgery, only to later succumb to MRSA due to discontinuation ... we learned that the overall success rate for treatment of spinal infection involving hardware ...

When that happens, your infection will be said to be antibiotic resistant, and your physician will have to prescribe a different drug to combat it. MRSA ... an alternative treatment for the ...

Simple hand washing. And for parents who do think that their child might have a MRSA skin infection, how can they distinguish the difference between a regular skin infection vs. MRSA? Tom Frieden ...

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Basilea will seek approval of ceftobiprole for SAB as well as acute bacterial skin ... treatment of SAB S. aureus, including hard-to-treat infections caused by methicillin-resistant strains (MRSA ...