How to Use staph in a Sentence

staph

noun

• The abscess, once drained, was found to have a staph infection.
  — David J. Neal may 6, Miami Herald, 6 May 2026
• His left foot was in a boot from the start of spring training because of surgery following a staph infection.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 15 Oct. 2021
• So giving in to a life-threatening staph infection was not an option.
  — Scott Miller, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• The state is still waiting on results for bacteria that cause staph and campylobacter.
  — Thomas Heaton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
• John had a brain bleed and staph infection, while his sister underwent open-heart surgery, Perell writes.
  — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 18 Nov. 2021
• Now is not the time to willingly put yourself at risk of infections, like staph and cellulitis.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 24 Apr. 2020
• At least two people have contracted staph infections, the complaint adds.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2023
• And new, even more deadly versions of staph may be on the way, due to intensive use of antibiotics on factory farms.
  — Elizabeth Svoboda, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2012
• Scratching chickenpox blisters can allow bacteria like staph or strep to enter the skin.
  — Brandi Jones, Msn-Ed, Health, 18 Oct. 2024
• Tests that can detect staph DNA yield faster results than growing the bacteria in a lab.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 8 June 2021
• Doctors then discovered the staph infection, which can be very serious.
  — Tom Withers, Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
• An excess of harmful bacteria, like staph bacteria, can trigger flares of eczema symptoms.
  — Andrea Stanley, Health, 4 Mar. 2024
• Plus, the researchers had never come across staph or strep in samples collected from other extreme locations.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 16 Mar. 2023
• People with chronic illnesses are at higher risk of getting staph infections.
  — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 28 Feb. 2025
• The last few years have been an onslaught of health problems – heart surgery, kidney failure, staph infections, thyroid trouble and a broken hip.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 30 Jan. 2023
• Tim Flannery’s rollicking life as an athlete and a musician was nearly cut short by a staph infection.
  — Scott Miller, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Food can become contaminated with staph if people who carry the bacteria touch it without first washing their hands.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 23 Nov. 2024
• Mostly the ones that cause colds, flus and diarrhea, but also norovirus, staph, MRSA and more.
  — Elisabeth Leamy, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• Dean's health deteriorated rapidly in late April due to a staph infection.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
• Francona is lined up for another procedure shortly, this one to implant a steel rod in his left foot to replace a bone that was weakened by a staph infection.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021
• Barker, according to the news outlet, is now suffering from staph and skin infections, in addition to battling blood clots.
  — Nicole Darrah, Fox News, 21 June 2018
• Ed Hammill's life changed after a 2019 car crash that led to multiple surgeries and staph infections.
  — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 23 Dec. 2024
• Her mother had brought the girl to the hospital due to her symptoms, which the woman told doctors had been diagnosed a couple of weeks earlier as a staph infection.
  — John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 14 Dec. 2022
• There was essentially no difference in drug-resistance among staph infections between the two groups, albeit from a very small number of samples.
  — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 18 July 2024
• To make matters worse, the cut had developed a staph (MRSA) infection that could also have forced him out of the fight.
  — Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
• Margera tried to soothe the pain by submerging his fresh brand in a tub of filthy farm water, which resulted in a life-threatening staph infection that landed him in the hospital.
  — Sezin Devi Koehler, Entertainment Weekly, 26 June 2026
• For a start, the three initial strains of resistant staph all came from patients who had never been exposed to methicillin, and who were treated in a hospital that had only ever used the drug once.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2017
• Many kinds of pathogens, including enteroviruses and the bacteria that cause common staph and strep infections, are known to cause rare cases of myocarditis and pericarditis.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2021
• In those cases, staph can lead to blood infections, pneumonia, heart failure or stroke, or bone and joint infection and life-threatening conditions like sepsis and septic shock.
  — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 13 May 2026
• Or it could be used to test hospital surfaces for bacteria that cause staph infections and MRSA, the partners said.
  — Evan MacDonald, cleveland, 5 Nov. 2020