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Staph Infection Causes - Articles
Staph Skin Infections: Cause and Prevention
by
FitBuff Brandon
Posted
Thu 21 Oct 2010 5:10am
Staph skin infections are caused by staph bacteria (Staphylococcus). Staph infections range from boils to flesh-eating infections to antibiotic-resistant infections. The difference between these situations is the strength of the infection, how fast it spreads, how deep it goes, and how treatable it is (or isn't) with ant ...
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Cranberry Juice Shows Promise Blocking Staph Infections
by
Ed H.
Posted
Wed 01 Sep 2010 7:30pm
Expanding their scope of study on the mechanisms of bacterial infection, researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have reported the surprise finding from a small clinical study that cranberry juice cocktail blocked a strain of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) from beginning the process of infection.
The data was reported in a p ...
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Staph infections
by
Dr. Robert O.
Posted
Thu 18 Jun 2009 1:03am
I had a patient ask about her father who I was treating for a sternal wound infection after a coronary bypass operation. She asked what MRSA was as she'd been told her father was infected with it and she was concerned over stories she'd heard on TV.
MRSA is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus (staph) aureus bacteria that's become an increasi ...
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Staph Infections (MRSA): What You Do to Prevent Them
by
Alice C.

Posted
Tue 14 Oct 2008 4:59am
Hi All!
I saw another article regarding this topic so I thought I might as well weigh in on it. There is a lot of talk about MRSA infections or antibiotic resistant staph infection. This is sometimes referred to as a Super Bug. There are only a couple of antibiotics that will kill it and those are pretty powerful drugs. So, how did it get ...
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