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Wayne Lukas had been battling a severe Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) blood infection. He died on Saturday at the age of 89.
However, MRSE infections declined significantly after the switch, from 10.4 to 4.3 cases per 1000 occupied bed-days. The probability of MRSE among infections fell from 89.2% to 56.7%.
In low‑MRSA ICUs, switching from universal to targeted decolonization reduced MRSE bloodstream infections without raising ...
Wayne Lukas had been battling a severe Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) blood infection. He died on ...
Skin, soft tissues, and surgical sites are also classic sites of S. aureus infection. The mortality rates for nosocomial MRSA infections are approximately 50% for bacteremia and 33% for pneumonia ...
Born Darnell Wayne Lukas on Sept. 2, 1935, in Wisconsin as the second of three children, he rose to prominence in the sport ...
It is notorious for causing a range of infections, from minor skin conditions to life-threatening bloodstream infections and pneumonia. As antibiotic resistance becomes more prevalent, testing ...
A thousand-year-old treatment recorded in an early medieval medical text has shown powerful antibacterial effects against ...
A major cause of hospital-acquired infections, the super bacteria Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), not only exhibits strong resistance to existing antibiotics but also forms a dense ...