Mupirocin topical ointment is available as a brand-name drug. It’s also available as a generic drug. Brand name: Centany. Mupirocin comes as an ointment and as a cream you apply to your skin.

Mupirocin ointment before a total hip or knee arthroscopy is a safe and cost-effective intervention for reducing surgical site infections, according to a study published in Infection Control and ...

Mupirocin is a generic prescription medication. It comes as a topical cream and ointment. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved these different forms to treat certain bacterial skin ...

SAN DIEGO, CA—Clinicians should consider nasal povidone-iodine as an alternative to nasal mupirocin ointment to reduce risk of deep Staphylococcus aureus surgical site infections (SSI) following ...

Editor's note: This article, originally published on April 1, 2002, has been republished to include website enhancements. Numerous topical antiinfective products are available to your patients ...

Bacterial decolonization with mupirocin nasal ointment significantly lowered rates of severe acute radiation oral mucositis in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma undergoing radiotherapy. The ...