Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a type of bacteria that causes an infection that may be resistant to many antibiotics. There are precautions you can take to avoid contracting ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Recent recommendations for MRSA prevention suggest contact precautions are essential. There are currently no ...

October 29, 2010 (Vancouver, British Columbia) — Universal contact precautions (CP) combined with universal decolonization prove to be the best methods for preventing colonization and infection with ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Researchers estimated that contact precautions were ...

ORLANDO, Florida — Discontinuing routine contact precautions for endemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) can save time and money without ...

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 ...

Contact precautions, or CP, don’t need to be deemed an “essential practice” to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus prevention in acute care facilities, according to doctors who ...

Patient bathing or contact precautions: Which reduces MRSA spread the most? Bathing patients with chlorhexidine is slightly more effective than using contact precautions in preventing the spread of ...

A study, published in American Journal of Infection Control, examines the effect of discontinuing contact precautions for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant ...

MRSA is often acquired in hospitals, especially among high risk groups such as people in intensive care units (ICUs). Although infection control has improved, MRSA remains a serious problem if not ...

“The student has been treated, and all precautions have been taken to assure that [the infection] will not be transmitted to others,” Disitirct Superintendent Roseann Nyiri wrote in a letter to ...