September 13, 2009 (San Francisco, California) — Universal screening using rapid polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureas (MRSA) in hospitals appears to ...

An infectious disease test developer has raised $1.9 million in a series B financing round to advance its MRSA screening panel. It will also use the funds to develop its new molecular diagnostic ...

Numerous experts and policy makers have called for hospitals to screen patients for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections and isolate anyone testing positive to prevent the ...

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) introduced its Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Prevention Initiative in March 2007. [1] Since then, an interrupted time-series analysis [2] ...

Screening patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) produces cost savings for the whole hospital, according to a study that used a statistical ...

The medical community is united in its concern over the rapid spread of drug resistant staph bacteria in hospitals. But it’s divided over what to do. Some experts believe hospitals need to test large ...

A new screening technique for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) cuts by 75 percent the time taken to identify patients carrying MRSA and could be used to help prevent transmission of ...

Mandatory MRSA screening for all patients admitted to English hospitals is unethical and should be reconsidered, says Dr Michael Millar in an editorial published on BMJ.com. Mandatory MRSA screening ...

SCREENING FOR MRSA infection outside the acute hospital setting serves no real value and can in fact create unnecessary anxiety, a conference in Galway has heard. Prof Martin Cormican, Professor of ...

Doubts have been cast over government plans to introduce universal MRSA screening for inpatients after a large Swiss study found it had little effect on infection rates. Over the next three years the ...

Universal MRSA screening and isolation of high-risk patients will help prevent MRSA infections but may be too economically burdensome for an individual hospital to adopt, researchers find. Numerous ...