ATLANTA — The use of a nasal swab alone is likely to miss about one-quarter of all multidrug-resistant organism colonizations, a study of residents in three nursing homes shows. "Comprehensive ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Recent study findings suggest that using nasal surveillance swabs to test patients for MRSA could reduce ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . After a MRSA swab protocol was implemented, antibiotic administration decreased. Vancomycin use also decreased ...

Intensive care units (ICUs) are high-risk settings for the transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE). In a cluster-randomized trial ...