However, if the bacteria enter the skin or bloodstream through cuts or open wounds, you may develop an infection.

Maybe the wound is starting to ooze a bit ... Any one of those mutations could give your staph infection the capacity to continue replicating, even in the presence of the antibiotic.

Lemon myrtle oil has long been used by Australia’s Indigenous community for wound care and healing. Now, scientists in ...

The wound is the dark hole in the middle of the image (1). The immune cells are blue (2), and a kind of common skin bacterium called Staphylococcus epidermidis is shown in green (3). The white and red ...

Horiuchi A, Nakayama Y, Kajiyama M et al.: Nasopharyngeal decolonization of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus can reduce PEG peristomal wound infection. Am J Gastroenterol 2006 ...