MRSA Superbug News

  • Congressman: Murtha's intestine damaged in surgery (9 Feb 2010 07:11)

    ... hospitalized. (Snip) Rep. Bob Brady says an infection developed and that Murtha had a fever ... Virginia hospital. Messages left with the Bethesda hospital were not immediately returned. Is he absolutely ... of infection with something like C-diff or MRSA in hospitals and they can both be ...

  • University of Illinois at Chicago: Antibiotics might team up to fight deadly staph infections (8 Feb 2010 06:14)

    ... growth of dangerous pathogens such as MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and possibly others. MRSA is a staph infection that is resistant to certain antibiotics. According to a 2007 government report, more than ...

  • Newly engineered enzyme is a powerful staph antibiotic (8 Feb 2010 17:15)

    ... era in the fight between man and bug. By harnessing the power of natures own ... as a lysin that not only kills MRSA in mice but also works synergistically with ... staph the culprit behind most hospital infections. Naturally toxic for bacteria, enzymes called lysins ...

  • China's sick healthcare system breeding antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" (8 Feb 2010 09:49)

    ... notice the tendency for medical clinics and hospitals to over-prescribe medications here in Shanghai (even ... rapid rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as (MRSA). And with the relative ease of international ... Andreas Heddini of the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control: "We have a lot of ...

  • Nabi completes $8 million milestone in staph vaccine deal (8 Feb 2010 22:52)

    ... for the milestones in developing the staph infection vaccine candidate. "We continue to make good ... people. Some strains, called methicillin resistant, or MRSA, are highly resistant to antibiotic treatment, according ... systems, which make them especially dangerous in hospitals and other health care facilities. The PentaStaph ...

  • Blueprint targets NHS care quality (8 Feb 2010 15:10)

    ... which is being implemented in every acute hospital in the country in an attempt to ... safer. The work of the HAI (healthcare-associated infection) Taskforce, which was set up to help ... tackle infections such as Clostridium difficile and MRSA, will also be included. Copyright (c) Press ...

  • SJK Products Launches Onepure-handgel, the Alcohol-Free, 100% Natural (8 Feb 2010 08:11)

    ... killing over 99.9998 percent of all potentially infectious organisms i.e. bacteria, fungi, yeasts and viruses. ... germs and viruses (such as E Coli, MRSA, HIV virus and all known influenza viruses), ...

  • Pimping defendant gets nearly 5 years (8 Feb 2010 12:59)

    ... Stewart because he had developed the skin infection methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, also known as MRSA. ... infection methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, also known as MRSA. ...

  • INFECTIOUS DISEASES: Scientists tackle and trace infection prevention and control (3 Feb 2010 23:59)

    ... fuel the creation and implementation of new infection control strategies both for MRSA and other superbugs that are making their ... The second set is from a single hospital in northeast Thailand, and consists of 20 ...

  • Quick care needed to beat 'superbug' (7 Feb 2010 07:11)

    ... I might have cellulitis, a common bacterial infection of the skin. But, he added casually, ... it might be MRSA. The mention of MRSA made me anxious. Isn't MRSA that horrible ... of MRSA--health care-associated--had been a problem in hospitals and other health-care facilities for some time, ...

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  • Research Fellowship To Halt Super Bug Invasion, Australia (4 Feb 2010 10:11)

    ... to try to combat an extreme super bug even more aggressive than resistant Staphylococcus strains. ... and current treatments. Professor Paterson - an infectious diseases researcher at UQ's Centre for Clinical ... and even the more aggressive Community Acquired MRSA strain," he said. "There are currently no ...

  • MRSA infections devastating to some locals (7 Feb 2010 07:11)

    ... People can contract MRSA anywhere--the gym, school, a friend's house--but many ... patients are vulnerable to begin with, their infections can wreak the most havoc. Locust Grove ... room, Larry Hurley was admitted to the hospital and diagnosed with MRSA. Over the next ...

  • Wrestlers Are 16 Times More Likely to Be Exposed to MRSA During Tournament Season (3 Feb 2010 10:20)

    ... post-season championships, their risk for the skin infection Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) increases significantly. In ... Care shows that based on a potential MRSA colonization rate of 25 percent(2), the average ...

  • Pet Pointers: MRSA in pets (6 Feb 2010 12:03)

    ... Most of us have heard of MRSA affecting humans but it can also affect ... see a lot of Methicillin resistant staph infections that are not MRSA," said Vogel. "There ...

  • AsepticSure(TM) Hospital Sterilization System Demonstrates Total Eradication of Super Bugs (4 Feb 2010 13:47)

    ... test run completed thus far in its hospital room mock up facility has resulted in ... the primary causative agents of hospital acquired infections (HAIs), sometimes referred to as "Super Bugs". ... multiple runs with very high concentrations of MRSA, VRE and E. coli samples that were ...

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