Methicillin Susceptible Staphylococcus Aureus

You are asked to see a 14-year-old girl for recurrent, draining sores in the bilateral groin areas for over a year. She did not want to tell her parents, fearing what they might think, even though she was not sexually active.

The incidence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci bloodstream infections significantly increased in California hospitals during the second and third quarter of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019, a report showed.

The use of adjunctive daptomycin therapy among patients with methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections does not shorten the duration of bacteremia, researchers reported.