soft tissue infections Archives

Knowledge gaps, fears common among parents of children with drug-resistant bacteria

Knowledge gaps and fear — some of it unjustified — are common among the caregivers of children with a drug-resistant staph bacterium known as MRSA, according to the results of a small study from the Johns Hopkins Children Center. These caregiv…

Vancomycin is the drug of choice for treating cellulitis

DETROIT — Patients admitted to the hospital for the common bacterial skin infection cellulitis should be treated as a first line of defense with the potent antibiotic drug vancomycin rather than other antibiotics such as penicillin, according to a…