Staph aureus is immediately recognizable when ... especially when cuts or other deep wounds breach the skin and deeper tissues. Each bacterial cell also carries multiple mobile genetic elements ...

Maybe the wound is starting to ooze a bit ... Any one of those mutations could give your staph infection the capacity to continue replicating, even in the presence of the antibiotic.

"Patients with chronically infected wounds combined with metabolic diseases ... aureus, the bacterium that causes staph ...

Staphylococcus aureus is a common bacterium that lives ... it can breach surface barriers and immune defenses, often through wounds, causing skin infections—which can lead to complications ...

As with penicillin, only a year passed after this semi-synthetic penicillin was released before methicillin-resistant Staph aureus (MRSA) was reported. Initially, MRSA only appeared in hospitals ...

A newly developed laboratory tool can, within hours, help to identify specific viruses which can be used to destroy variants of the dangerous pathogenic bacteria Staphylococcus aureus.