51.   Prison officials, though, say a persistent, antibiotic-resistant staph infection is preventing Hernandez from being fitted with a prosthesis.

52.   A new vaccine against staph infections, an increasingly dangerous threat to hospital patients, has been tested successfully in animals, researchers report.

53.   A study shows for the first time that hospital patients often catch life-threatening staph infections from germs they harbor in their own noses.

54.   A vaccine has been shown for the first time to protect against life-threatening staph infections, a major hazard among hospital patients, researchers said Tuesday.

55.   Among the bacteria the bandage potentially could pinpoint are those that cause strep throat and common-skin staph infections.

56.   Diseases considered conquered -- tuberculosis, pneumonia, meningitis, staph infections -- are becoming unstoppable.

57.   Dr. Gordon L. Archer of Virginia Commonwealth University said the study supports refocusing efforts to fight staph infections by targeting the source.

58.   Five weeks later, a staph infection was discovered in his lower back.

59.   Guard Gary Grant had arthroscopic knee surgery, then a staph infection.

60.   He had been wearing a back brace and took antibiotics to fight a low-grade staph infection.