The CDC estimates around 5% of U.S. hospital patients carry MRSA infections on their skin or in in their nose. In many cases, these carriers will never develop harmful infections with MRSA. However, ...

The FDA Dec. 5 approved the marketing of a new diagnostic test for MRSA from Roche Molecular Systems that yields results hours faster than traditional tests. MRSA is a common cause of ...

July 3, 2010 — A test to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and S aureus (SA) has been recalled by the manufacturer based on an increasing number of complaints about false ...

Easy-to-use molecular test offers faster results to help healthcare facilities control spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) "It is important that healthcare professionals have ...

A team of biologists and biomedical researchers at UC San Diego has developed a new method to determine if bacteria are susceptible to antibiotics within a few hours, an advance that could slow the ...

OAKWOOD VILLAGE, Ohio.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The antimicrobial tedizolid is now available on FDA-cleared microbroth dilution susceptibility plates, enabling microbiology labs to perform tedizolid ...

Staphylococci represent the most commonly encountered blood culture isolates. With the spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative ...

Findings from a study that looked at susceptibility trends of Staphylococcus aureus in US hospital patients showed that key antibiotics used to treat the bacteria became more active over the course of ...

Researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara report the development of a new antimicrobial susceptibility test that could transform the way antibiotics are developed, tested, and ...

Findings from a study that looked at susceptibility trends of Staphylococcus aureus in US hospital patients showed that key antibiotics used to treat the bacteria became more active over the course of ...