Staphylococcal meningitis is an inflammatory condition that arises due to infection from Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. It causes inflammation in the protective lining around the brain. Meningitis is ...

Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is a major cause of skin and soft tissue infections that can sometimes lead to sepsis and toxic shock syndrome. The microbe poses a significant threat to public ...

Staphylococcus aureus is a versatile pathogen responsible for a spectrum of conditions ranging from superficial skin infections to invasive diseases such as bacteraemia and endocarditis. Central to ...

British physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin nearly 100 years ago, was the first to warn of the dangers of antibiotic resistance. In his 1945 Nobel Prize speech, 27 ...

Tests of 136 samples of meat purchased at 26 grocery stores in five US cities found antibiotic resistant strains of staphylococcus aureus contaminating about 25 percent of purchased beef, chicken, ...

After dozens of clinical trials, there are still no effective vaccines against Staphylococcus aureus. In two new studies, scientists report that the pathogen turns on the protein interleukin 10, ...