Staphylococcus bacteria live on skin and can cause a staph infection if they enter the bloodstream. Staph infections can involve a range of symptoms, like vomiting, rashes or inflamed skin, and fever.

If the site of the ingrown hair acquires an infection with Staphylococcus aureus, it can cause itchy bumps, pain, flushed skin, and pus. Staph infections come from a bacterium called Staphylococcus ...

A News 9 viewer has a spider bite, and says it is red, painful, and starting to drain. Dr. Lacy Anderson has the warning signs that it could be something more severe. A News 9 viewer has a spider bite ...

A skin infection has many signs that are often ignored. Here are the ones to watch out for and when to seek medical treatment ...

In a recent study published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, researchers described two cases of human monkeypox (MPX) and deep skin infection. Human MPX is a zoonotic disease ...

Medically reviewed by Michael Menna, DO Heat, redness, swelling, or pain can be signs of an infected bug bite.An untreated ...

Life behind bars — with its close contact and sharing of soap and towels — has contributed to several prison and jail outbreaks of a hard-to-treat skin infection that health officials fear could ...

Applying iodine povacrylex in alcohol instead of chlorhexidine gluconate before surgery is associated with fewer surgical site infections in closed, but not open, extremity fractures, new research ...