A new substance has proven useful for treating staphylococcus infections in people with skin lymphoma. This is good news for the patients, but also for the global threat of antibiotics resistance.

Most people have Staphylococcus bacteria on their skin, but sometimes it can cause an acute infection with life threatening symptoms. Staphylococcus bacteria are a common bacterial strain. Even ...

Bacteria living on everyone's skin are mutating to defend themselves against medicine and could trigger a rise infections caught after surgery, scientists warn. The bacteria are similar to the ...

Around 20 percent of all humans are persistently colonized with Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, a leading cause of skin infections and one of the major sources of hospital-acquired infections, ...

People who persistently carry Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) in their nose have fewer species of other bacteria, while certain bacteria may help to prevent S. aureus colonization. These are the ...

Antibiotics are widely considered one of the most important advances in the history of medicine. Their introduction into clinical practice during the 1940s marked a major milestone in the control of ...

Routinely cleaning wristbands is generally ignored. New research finds 95 percent of wristbands tested were contaminated. Rubber and plastic wristbands had higher bacterial counts, while gold and ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacteria that causes infections in different parts of the body. It's tougher to treat than most strains of Staphylococcus aureus (staph) because ...

Chronic lung diseases are often accelerated and exacerbated by polymicrobial infections. An international study team led by MedUni Vienna has identified two types of these so-called dysbioses in ...

A new study from National Institutes of Health scientists and their Thai colleagues shows that a “good” bacterium commonly found in probiotic digestive supplements helps eliminate Staphylococcus ...

Here’s a head-scratcher. Could the species of bacteria living on your scalp determine whether you get dandruff? But now researchers have bacteria in their cross hairs. Zhijue Xu of Shanghai Jiao Tong ...