Staphylococcus Aureus

NEW YORK — In this video, C. Buddy Creech, MD, MPH, describes how to treat common infections in young athletes, including mononucleosis, Staphylococcus aureus and herpes simplex virus.

A healthy, 10-year-old boy seeks care for a sore left cheek.

A previously healthy, 14-year-old girl is admitted to the hospital after complaints of painful swelling of her lower lip, with periodic spotty, blood-tinged drainage from several discrete areas with overlying dark scabs.

SAN ANTONIO — We caught up with Connie Steed, MSN, RN, CIC, FAPIC, at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology annual meeting to talk about the potential benefits of universal nasal decolonization.

Published results showed implementation of a surgical site infection prevention bundle may decrease rates of deep incisional or organ space Staphylococcus aureus surgical site infections after total joint arthroplasty.

An unvaccinated 12-year-old girl, acquired chickenpox, also known as varicella, 6 days ago and was recovering well, but she awoke during the night with high fever and significant pain in her upper left abdominal area. What's your diagnosis?

A 3-year-old girl came running into her house, crying loudly with pain in her right hand. Her mother noticed several flat red marks, but no break in the skin, and she assumed they were insect bites or stings.

Respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, showed signs of returning to its pre-pandemic seasonality this past winter, but researchers cautioned that off-season epidemics are still possible.

An exeporfinium chloride nasal gel called XF-73 was safe for patients and effectively decreased the burden of nasal Staphylococcus aureus, which lessens the risk of surgical site infections, researchers found.

A bactericidal nasal gel administered during the 24 hours before cardiac surgery reduced the burden of Staphylococcus aureus carriage vs. placebo with no adverse events or surgical site infections, researchers reported.