Breaking news on mrsa superbug
Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis - Update published
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:00:00 PST
The World Health Organization (WHO) has ongoing programs to improve and monitor tuberculosis (TB). The WHO's 2011 report on global TB control provides the most comprehensive information ever collected on the problems and issues of disease, as well as deaths caused by TB and multidrug-resistant TB (i.e. disease marked by in vitro resistance to at least isoniazid and rifampicin)...
Averting Drug Resistance published
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is growing exponentially, contributing to an estimated 99,000 deaths from hospital-associated infections in the U.S. annually, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One reason that this is happening is that drug resistant proteins are transporting "good" antibiotics, or inhibitors, out of the cells, leaving them to mutate...
Shedding New Light On The Way Superbugs Such As MRSA Are Able To Become Resistant To Treatment With Antibiotics published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
Scientists have shed new light on the way superbugs such as MRSA are able to become resistant to treatment with antibiotics. Researchers have mapped the complex molecular structure of an enzyme found in many bacteria. These molecules - known as restriction enzymes - control the speed at which bacteria can acquire resistance to drugs and eventually become superbugs...
Manuka Honey Could Be The Answer For Treating And Preventing Wound Infections published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
Manuka honey could help clear chronic wound infections and even prevent them from developing in the first place, according to a new study published in Microbiology. The findings provide further evidence for the clinical use of manuka honey to treat bacterial infections in the face of growing antibiotic resistance...
MRSA, In Pork Products published
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:00:00 PST
According to a study by the University of Iowa College of Public Health and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria (MRSA) in retail pork products in the U.S. is higher than researchers originally thought...
Retail Meat Products Found To Contain High Levels Of MRSA Bacteria published
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
Retail pork products in the United States have a higher prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria (MRSA) than previously identified, according to new research by the University of Iowa College of Public Health and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy...
A Cause Of Resistance To Colon Cancer Treatment Identified published
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
Doctors and researchers of Hospital del Mar and its research institute, the IMIM, have lead a study describing a new pharmacological resistance to cancer. This new mechanism is a mutation in an oncogene called EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor) causing resistance to treatment using a drug called cetuximab, a monoclonal antibody which specifically attacks the EGFR...
Use Of Antimicrobial Scrubs May Reduce Bacterial Burden On Health Care Worker Apparel published
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
The use of antimicrobial impregnated scrubs combined with good hand hygiene is effective in reducing the burden of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) on health care workers' apparel and may potentially play a role in decreasing the risk of MRSA transmission to patients, according to a new study from Virginia Commonwealth University researchers...
Mechanism Of Lung-Cancer Drug Resistance Revealed By Study published
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
New research published in Nature Medicine indicates that targeted drugs such as gefitinib might more effectively treat non-small cell lung cancer if they could be combined with agents that block certain microRNAs. The study was led by investigators with the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J...
New Insights Into Antibiotics And Pig Feeds published
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:00:00 PST
Antibiotics in pig feed increased the number of antibiotic resistant genes in gastrointestinal microbes in pigs, according to a study conducted by Michigan State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service...
Detecting Staph Infections With Mass Spectrometry published
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:00:00 PST
Researchers have designed a new laboratory test that can quickly identify the bacterium that causes Staphylococcus aureus infections. The findings have been published in the January issue of the journal Molecular and Cellular Proteomics...
Untreatable Tuberculosis Reported In India published
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:00:00 PST
Experts have long feared the eventual arrival of a completely drug-resistant TB (tuberculosis) - a hospital in India has reported the nation's first cases of a type of tuberculosis for which there are no effective drugs, making the TB virtually untreatable. Other untreatable TBs have emerged over the last nine years; there have been reported cases in Iran and Italy...
UGA Scientists 'Hijack' Bacterial Immune System published
Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
The knowledge that bacteria possess adaptable immune systems that protect them from individual viruses and other foreign invaders is relatively new to science, and researchers across the globe are working to learn how these systems function and to apply that knowledge in industry and medicine...
"Stay Away Unless Absolutely Essential", UK Hospital Urges People published
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:00:00 PST
In order to help stop sickness bugs spreading this winter, staff at Southampton's teaching hospitals are advising members of the general public to avoid the hospitals unless their visit is "absolutely essential." Currently, seven wards are not taking in new patients at Southampton General Hospital in order to prevent gastroenteritis viruses from spreading - resulting in a loss of 30 beds...
MRSA Post Tympanostomy Tube Placement Not Linked To Further Complications published
Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:00:00 PST
According to an investigation published in the December issue of Archives of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, researchers have discovered that ear discharge and drainage (otorrhea) caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) after ear tube placement in children is not linked to an increased risk of needing further surgery or other complications, in compari...
News From The Journal MBio published
Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
Unique E. coli Protein May Be Not After All A bacterial protein recently thought to be a unique mechanism for utilizing iron may not be after all. Researchers from the University of Georgia, the Fellowship for Interpretation of Genomes, the University of Oklahoma and the University of Utah School of Medicine report their findings in the latest issue of the online journal mBioŽ...
Practical Applications Likely By Manipulating Way Bacteria 'Talk' published
Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
By manipulating the way bacteria "talk" to each other, researchers at Texas A&M University have achieved an unprecedented degree of control over the formation and dispersal of biofilms - a finding with potentially significant health and industrial applications, particularly to bioreactor technology. Working with E. coli bacteria, Professor Thomas K...
FDA Bans Certain Uses Of Antibiotics In Food-Producing Animals published
Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
In a bid to protect an important class of antibiotics for treating humans and reduce the development of drug resistance, the US Food and Drug Administration has banned certain uses of cephalosporins in food-producing animals. The federal agency announced on Wednesday that the prohibition order comes into effect on 5 April...
MRSA Post Tympanostomy Tube Placement Does Not Mean More Surgery Or Complications published
Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:00:00 PST
According to an investigation published in Archives of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, researchers have discovered that ear discharge and drainage (otorrhea) caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) after ear tube placement in children is not linked to an increased risk of needing further surgery or other complications, in comparison to a diagnosis of non-MRSA otorrhea...
Drugs Used To Overcome Cancer May Also Combat Antibiotic Resistance published
Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PST
Drugs used to overcome cancer may also combat antibiotic resistance, finds a new study led by Gerry Wright, scientific director of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research at McMaster University...
How Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Cells Form published
Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PST
A new study led by Harvard School of Public (HSPH) researchers provides a novel explanation as to why some tuberculosis cells are inherently more difficult to treat with antibiotics. The discovery, which showed that the ways mycobacteria cells divide and grow determine their susceptibility to treatment with drugs, could lead to new avenues of drug development that better target tuberculosis cells...
Link Between Delirium And Patient Isolation published
Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PST
A new study finds that patients who are moved into isolation during a hospital stay are nearly twice as likely to develop delirium, a potentially dangerous change in mental status that often affects hospital patients. Patients who began their stay in isolation were not at increased risk...
An Easy-To-Use Solution To Make Hospitals Safer published
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PST
According to the World Health Organization, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are one of the top three threats to human health. Patients in hospitals are especially at risk, with almost 100,000 deaths due to infection every year in the U.S. alone. Now Dr...
Hospital Room Cleaning Could Be Revolutionized By New Disinfection Technique published
Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PST
A Queen's University infectious disease expert has collaborated in the development of a disinfection system that may change the way hospital rooms all over the world are cleaned as well as stop bed bug outbreaks in hotels and apartments...
New Paper Calls For Strong Steps To Tackle Antibiotic Resistance published
Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PST
Shahriar Mobashery, a University of Notre Dame researcher, is one of the coauthors of a new paper by a group of the world's leading scientists in academia and industry that calls for strong steps to be taken to control the global crisis of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. The group issued a priority list of steps that need to be taken on a global scale to resolve the crisis...
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