The skin bacterium Staphylococcus aureus often develops antibiotic resistance. It can then cause infections that are difficult to treat. Researchers have now uncovered an ingenious way in which a ...

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

Initial studies of staphylococcal adhesion focused on binding to the extracellular matrix and plasma proteins. More recently, studies have investigated adhesins for human keratinocytes and their ...

The present report deals with the in vitro anti-microbial activity of novobiocin and its efficacy in the treatment of a variety of surgical infections due to staphylococci and other gram-positive ...

Septicemia or blood poisoning caused by Staphylococcus aureus leads to thousands of deaths each year in Germany alone. Just how the infection begins -- and can lead to multiple organ failure -- was ...

OBSERVATIONS of the natural history of epidemic staphylococcal disease in newborn nurseries and studies of the transmission of staphylococci to newborn infants have clearly shown that the sources of ...

Bacteria from cows has shown "promising" results in treating hospital superbugs. The farmyard favorites carry a microbe that could become an "effective weapon" against antibiotic resistant MRSA ...

JNU study finds high levels of airborne antibiotic-resistant bacteria in Delhi’s winter pollution, raising public health concerns.