The health-care facility environment is rarely implicated in disease transmission, except
among patients who are immunocompromised. Nonetheless, inadvertent exposures to …

Strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have become increasingly
common in the United States and in many other countries since 1975. Although MRSA was …

Background: Nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus is common among health care
workers, but outbreaks caused by such carriers are relatively uncommon. We previously …

Background: Once established in an institution, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
(MRSA) outbreaks have proved difficult to eradicate, despite intensive infection control …

Certain bacteria dispersed by health-care workers can cause hospital infections.
Asymptomatic health-care workers colonized rectally, vaginally, or on the skin with group A …

Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infections are
common in southwestern Alaska. Outbreak strains have been shown to carry the genes for …

Intensive care units (ICUs) have contributed greatly to the survival of patients with trauma,
shock states, and other life-threatening conditions1-3 but are associated with a greatly …

Staphylococcus aureus is an unusually successful and adaptive human pathogen that can
cause epidemics of invasive disease despite its frequent carriage as a commensal. Over the …

Objective: To determine whether healthy adult nasal carriers of Staphylococcus aureus can
disperse S. aureus into the air after rhinovirus infection. Design: We investigated the “cloud” …

Objective: to review the current medical literature on neonatal nosocomial infections,
emphasizing aspects of neonatal colonization, immune system and infection mechanisms …