Mupirocin

Cheaper Drug Cuts Surgery Site Infections (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- SAN DIEGO - The use of povidone-iodine nasal solution immediately before surgery should be considered as an alternative option to five days use of mupirocin ointment to prevent Stap...

Comprehensive strategy including prophylactic mupirocin to reduce Staphylococcus aureus colonization and infection in high-risk neonates

NAD Refers Summers Labs Ointment Claim To FTC After J&J Challenge

Claims for Summers Labs’ Triple Paste diaper rash ointment spurred Desitin maker Johnson & Johnson to bring a challenge through the National Advertising Division. Summers disagreed with NAD’s...

Summers Labs Blasts NAD “Secret Rules” After J&J Ointment Claim Clash

Claims for Summers Labs’ Triple Paste diaper rash ointment spurred Desitin maker Johnson & Johnson to bring a challenge through the National Advertising Division. Summers disagreed with NAD’s...

Researchers uncover why ointment and photodynamic therapy cause pain in skin cancer patients

Apply the ointment, light on, light off - that's how easy it is to cure various forms of non-melanoma skin cancer. However, the majority of patients suffer severe pain during the so-termed photodynami...

Time course of changes in ocular wavefront aberration after administration of eye ointment

Time course of changes in ocular wavefront aberration after administration of eye ointment Eye advance online publication, July 20, 2012. doi:10.1038/eye.2012.142 Authors: T Hiraoka, T Yama...

Preoperative Mupirocin Saves Big Bucks

Eradicating nasal Staphylococcus aureus colonization before total joint arthroplasty prevents expensive surgical-site infections. Medscape Infectious Diseases

Double the pain: Biologists find the cause of pain in the treatment of fair skin cancer

Apply the ointment, light on, light off – that's how easy it is to cure various forms of non-melanoma skin cancer. However, the majority of patients suffer severe pain during the so-termed photod...

The NOSE Study (Nasal Ointment for Staphylococcus aureus Eradication): A Randomized Controlled Trial of Monthly Mupirocin in HIV-Infected Individuals.

BACKGROUND:: HIV-positive patients at HELP/PSI, Inc, an in-patient drug rehabilitation center, had a high baseline prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus colonization (49%) and incidence of infection (17...

Risk factors associated with mupirocin resistance in meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Implementation of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) decolonisation programmes has been increasing and the emergence of mupirocin resistance has been reported. However, the patient-leve...

Nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in patients undergoing Mohs micrographic surgery is an important risk factor for postoperative surgical site infection: A prospective randomised study.

BACKGROUND: Surgical site infection (SSI) can be a problematic complication of Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS). Previous reports have cited nasal Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) carriage as a risk...

Short- and long-term safety assessment of a two-compound ointment containing calcipotriene/betamethasone dipropionate (Taclonex/Daivobet/Dovobet ointment): hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function in patients with psoriasis vulgaris.

The two-compound ointment (Taclonex/Daivobet/Dovobet ointment) combining calcipotriene 50 microg/g and betamethasone 0.5 mg/g (as dipropionate) is very effective in the treatment of psoriasis vulgaris...

Total Synthesis of (+)-Mupirocin H from d-Glucose.

Enantioselective total synthesis of mupirocin H is accomplished starting from d-glucose featuring strategic application of d-glucose derived chirality, diastereoselective Still-Barrish hydroboration,...