The three-arm randomized trial was conducted at five hospitals in Pennsylvania with members of 223 households. Participants were split into three groups: those who received only education on personal ...

Facing persistent cases of hospital-onset Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) during the pandemic, the infection prevention and control (IPC) team at Children's Hospital New Orleans ...

Orlando, Fla., June 26, 2023 – Facing persistent cases of hospital-onset Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) during the pandemic, the infection prevention and control (IPC) team at ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A repeated decolonization regimen successfully allowed health care workers who were previously colonized with ...

New research shows that patient education and compliance are just as important as the treatment itself in household MRSA decolonization after infection Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America ...

ATLANTA -- A combined intervention against recurrent Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) that included both personal periodic decolonization and home environmental hygiene ...

During the COVID pandemic, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in acute care hospitals rose steeply, despite a decrease of infections before the pandemic, the Society for ...

We use an extended version of a previously described stochastic simulation model. [10] The model contains three hospitals of 693 beds, each with an extramural population of 220,000 subjects. Patients ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Hexachlorophene and mupirocin do not effectively remove colonies of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from people with HIV, a new study shows. "For several years ...

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) recently updated its guidelines for antisepsis and nasal decolonization. These updates lend weight to long-held practices and offer guidance ...