mrsa

Plymouth Hospitals NHS has reached a significant milestone this week – a year without any patient having an MRSA bacteraemia (blood stream infection).

This is a fantastic achievement for staff at the large, specialist Trust and is testament to their hard work and dedication to reduce infections.

Dr Peter Jenks, Director of Infection Prevention and Control, said: “An MRSA blood-...

Scientists from universities in the South West have proposed a pioneering technique to help predict the severity of MRSA infection, which could lead to more personalised treatment for individual patients.

An international collaboration of scientists, including Dr Mario Recker from the University of Exeter, have used genome sequencing to identify the toxicity of specific infections of...