MRSA News

Infectious Diseases in Children asked Christopher J. Harrison, MD, FPIDS, a physician in the division of infectious diseases at Children’s Mercy Kansas City, to discuss the feasibility of a Staphylococcus aureus vaccine.

MRSA, an infection that was once typically observed in health care settings, has spread into the community over the past 2 decades, with increased but sporadic rates of colonization with the bacterium observed within the pediatric population since 2001.

NEW YORK — While skin and soft tissue infections such as MRSA are decreasing around 3% annually, rates of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus, clindamycin and Bactrim resistance are rising, according to a presentation at the Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium.

To mark our 30th anniversary, Infectious Diseases in Children will be examining some of the infectious diseases that have defined and changed the field over the past 3 decades.

Although mortality rates were lower for children with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus compared with adults, children experienced more frequent treatment failure and complications, with the chances of bacteremia-related complications increasing 50% for every additional day of infection, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

Compared with standard of care, once-daily daptomycin, a parenteral lipopeptide antibiotic, demonstrated significant effectiveness and safety for the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections caused by gram-positive pathogens, including community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Days after winning the White House, President-elect Donald J. Trump declared during a TV interview that he would try to keep in place parts of the Affordable Care Act guaranteeing coverage for patients with pre-existing conditions and allowing children to remain on their parents’ health care plans until age 26 years — comments that seemed at odds with his persistent campaign pledge to “repeal and replace” President Barack Obama’s signature health care law.

Days after winning the White House, President-elect Donald J. Trump declared during a TV interview that he would try to keep in place parts of the Affordable Care Act guaranteeing coverage for patients with pre-existing conditions and allowing children to remain on their parents’ health care plans until age 26 years — comments that seemed at odds with his persistent campaign pledge to “repeal and replace” President Barack Obama’s signature health care law.

Infant colonization with potentially pathogenic organisms and related antibiotic resistance occurred early during the first year of life, according to recent study findings.

Young children who live with parents who work on large industrial hog operations had a higher prevalence of inter-nasal antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus than children whose parents did not work on hog operations in the same community in North Carolina, according to recent findings.