September 13, 2009 (San Francisco, California) — Universal screening using rapid polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureas (MRSA) in hospitals appears to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WASHINGTON — A MRSA PCR nasal swab showed promise as a tool for antimicrobial stewardship in a large study of ...

Background. There have been no randomized controlled trials comparing active and passive screening for documenting clearance of colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). We ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A negative MRSA nasal swab could help clinicians determine whether to withhold or discontinue MRSA treatment ...

- Applying Patented Technology to Develop New Molecular Diagnostic Tests for Detection of Hospital-Based Infectious Diseases - - New European Patent Allowance Provides Further Protection for MDI's ...

Traditional antimicrobial susceptibility testing for MRSA such as disk diffusion and broth microdilution require a minimum of 24–48 h to perform. This delay has made rapid diagnostic assays paramount ...

The story of MRSA begins just four years after methicillin entered medical practice in 1959. The bacteria had already developed resistance to the new antibiotic, demonstrating the remarkable ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a serious bacterial infection that is resistant to most antibiotic treatments. Healing is possible but severe infections may become chronic or ...

MRSA symptoms vary depending on the infection site, commonly appearing on the skin as bumps or lesions, but can also affect the lungs, bones, blood, and heart. MRSA skin infections can resemble other ...

SIMPLE chip: $10 device can detect HIV and MRSA in blood samples. (Courtesy: Yeh et al. / Science Advances) A team of biophysicists and bioengineers in the US have developed a $10, self-powered ...