Medscape

Two Thirds of Mupirocin-Resistant MRSA Wrongly Treated

April 6, 2012 (London, United Kingdom) — Two thirds of patients with high-level mupirocin-resistant, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are receiving the wrong treatment because of an ...
Medscape

Mupirocin Resistance May Be Common in MRSA Clinical Isolates

July 21, 2008 — A survey showed a relatively high rate of mupirocin resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clinical isolates, and a second study showed increasing resistance ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

Limited Efficacy with Intranasal Mupirocin to Prevent MRSA Infections in Neonates

SAN DIEGO, CA— Use of intranasal mupirocin as a strategy to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is limited by a 50% recolonization ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

Antibiotic Prophylaxis Intervention Slashes NICU MRSA Rates

Monthly intranasal mupirocin prophylaxis in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) dramatically decreased healthcare-associated transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) ...
Healio

Many factors involved in decolonization of S. aureus

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Controlled studies of decolonization have primarily been ...
Healio

CA-MRSA: preventing, managing leading culprit in skin, soft tissue infections

If antibiotics are a physician’s weapon of choice, then methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is a moving target. For years, MRSA has been a hospital problem, but this bug’s movement into the ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Honey: The new potential warrior in the fight against MRSA

Researchers studied patients older than 18 years with MRSA colonized in the nose. Participants received one to two courses of either honey or mupirocin (2 percent) three times per day for five ...
clinicaladvisor.com

Standard of care for MRSA infections

Over the past several years, I have seen a rise in the number of otherwise healthy adults presenting with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)-positive abscesses and cellulitis. What is ...
Los Angeles Times

UCI doctor’s plan to stop superbugs is widely used. At her own hospital, it didn’t work

The strategy — which she had promoted so successfully that most U.S. hospitals now use it — included bathing all infants in the ICU with a powerful disinfectant, and swabbing inside their noses with ...
Yahoo Finance

Revium Rx Advances Toward Phase 1 Clinical Development of Nano-Mupirocin to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Infections

TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Revium Rx (formerly Revium Recovery Inc. (OTC: RVRC), a biopharmaceutical company developing advanced lipid-based therapeutics for infectious and ...
Fierce Healthcare

Four percent of healthcare workers MRSA-positive

About 4 percent of healthcare workers are infected with some strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, according to a recent voluntary screening of 3,638 clinical and non-patient-care ...