The bacteria Staphylococcus aureus (staph) lives on the skin and in the nose of many people. It usually only causes a problem such as MSSA bacteremia if it gets inside the body. Staph infections ...

Around 30 percent of people have Staphylococcus aureus bacteria -the primary bacterial culprit behind staphylococcal infections - somewhere on their skin or in their nose. In most cases ...

But if you decide to eat it instead, it stands to reason that you're putting yourself at risk of infection ... under your fingernails, Staphylococcus aureus. A 2006 study found that nose-pickers ...

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A deadly superbug that sometimes claims the lives of more than a million people globally a year may have a nemesis that lives right under your nose. Quite literally. It dominates your skin microbiome, ...

It’s possible to get a staph infection from food poisoning, but a number of things have to happen first. This type of infection is caused by the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus, or “staph ...

As the infection progresses, Agr activity is downregulated, helping the bacteria evade immune detection. Colonization is the first step in S. aureus infection. It commonly inhabits the nostrils ...

Any one of those mutations could give your staph infection the capacity to continue replicating, even in the presence of the antibiotic. All it takes is a single mutated S. aureus—one that ...

Eight dogs of various breeds collaborated on the study, four of which were recruited from the Penn Vet Working Dog Center and four from their community science program, which includes dogs that ...