At the end of Episode 4, the doctor worried his patient had 'something worse' than the antibiotic resistant infection.

Debbie Cohen’s infection spreads fast in The Pitt Season 2 Episode 4. MRSA or something worse? Episode recap, and medical tension explained.

Debbie Cohen’s “minor” leg injury in The Pitt Season 2 Episode 4 escalates into a suspected MRSA case that endangers her, ...

AVA, IL (KFVS) - Savannah Smith has been to hell and back. A decade-long heroin addiction brought her to the brink of death more than a dozen times. But it was a bacterium called Methicillin-resistant ...

Oregon hospitals have made strides in reducing health care-associated infections (HAIs) but still fall short in meeting national standards for certain infections, according to the Oregon Health ...

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 ...

Over the past several months, we have received dozens of questions about multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). In particular, readers have asked about methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ...

Severe MRSA infections can be fatal. MRSA mortality rates tend to be highest in older people. Certain underlying health conditions can also increase the risk of death. Staphylococcus aureus is a ...

As if all the angst about drug-resistant staph bacteria wasn’t worrisome enough, now it turns out you might get the deadly germ from your cat. Suspicions about that calico on the couch are being ...

MRSA, first identified in 1960, became a major cause of healthcare-associated infection with the emergence of epidemic strains EMRSA 15 and 16 in the 1990s. MRSA bacteraemia surveillance in England ...

Nearly 120,000 people contracted bloodstream staph infections in the United States in 2017, most of them in health care facilities – and nearly 20,000 died. Progress against the most dangerous ...