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Drug-Resistant Infections Acquired By Soldiers In Field Hospitals

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
An outbreak of drug-resistant wound infections among soldiers in Iraq likely came from the hospitals where they were treated, not the battlefield, according to a new study in the June 15 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, currently available online.The outbreak of drug-resistant Acinetobacter ba ...

read more An outbreak of drug-resistant wound infections among soldiers in Iraq likely came from the hospitals where they were treated, not the battlefield, according to a new study in the June 15 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, currently available online.The outbreak of drug-resistant Acinetobacter ba read more Sun May 2007 Sun May 2007

Drug-Resistant Bacteria Attacking Injured US Soldiers In Iraq

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
US soldiers in Iraq do not carry the bacteria responsible for difficult-to-treat wound infections found in military hospitals treating soldiers wounded in Iraq, according to an article published electronically, in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. The article will appear in the June issue ...

read more US soldiers in Iraq do not carry the bacteria responsible for difficult-to-treat wound infections found in military hospitals treating soldiers wounded in Iraq, according to an article published electronically, in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. The article will appear in the June issue read more Tue May 2007 Tue May 2007

Students' Product Could Reduce Spread Of Infections Like MRSA

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
A product designed by two entrepreneurial medical graduates could soon be helping to reduce the spread of hospital-acquired infections such as MRSA. The pair have designed a disposable tourniquet which they believe will pose no infection risk and which they hope will provide a cheap, comfortable alt ...

read more A product designed by two entrepreneurial medical graduates could soon be helping to reduce the spread of hospital-acquired infections such as MRSA. The pair have designed a disposable tourniquet which they believe will pose no infection risk and which they hope will provide a cheap, comfortable alt read more Wed May 2007 Wed May 2007

Arming The Fight Against Resistant Bacteria

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
In 1928, Alexander Fleming opened the door to treating bacterial infections when he stumbled upon the first known antibiotic in a Penicillium mold growing in a discarded experiment.Nearly eight decades later, chemist Helen Blackwell and her research team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have d ...

read more In 1928, Alexander Fleming opened the door to treating bacterial infections when he stumbled upon the first known antibiotic in a Penicillium mold growing in a discarded experiment.Nearly eight decades later, chemist Helen Blackwell and her research team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have d read more Thu May 2007 Thu May 2007

New Weapons In The Fight Against Superbugs

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
Today sees the launch of two powerful weapons in the fight against superbugs from Synergy Healthcare. AirCleanse?, is a new air-purifying system for healthcare services that achieves a massive 99.99% kill rate for all airborne infections . Assure?/AssurePlus? is a new range of cleaning products sp ...

read more Today sees the launch of two powerful weapons in the fight against superbugs from Synergy Healthcare. AirCleanse?, is a new air-purifying system for healthcare services that achieves a massive 99.99% kill rate for all airborne infections . Assure?/AssurePlus? is a new range of cleaning products sp read more Wed May 2007 Wed May 2007

More Action To Tackle C.Difficile As MRSA Numbers Continue To Fall, UK

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
The Government's Chief Nursing Officer today welcomed a further reduction in MRSA bloodstream infections and announced the latest in a raft of measures to drive down rates of C.difficile in hospitals. Latest statistics from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) show a decrease of 6.7% in MRS ...

read more The Government's Chief Nursing Officer today welcomed a further reduction in MRSA bloodstream infections and announced the latest in a raft of measures to drive down rates of C.difficile in hospitals. Latest statistics from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) show a decrease of 6.7% in MRS read more Sat Apr 2007 Sat Apr 2007

BD Announces FDA 510(k) Submission Of Two Hour Test To Identify Superbug In Patients With Positive Blood Cultures

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), announced today that it has submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), for 510(k) clearance, the first assay for the rapid and simultaneous identification of methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA ...

read more BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), announced today that it has submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), for 510(k) clearance, the first assay for the rapid and simultaneous identification of methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA read more Thu Apr 2007 Thu Apr 2007

High-Risk Patient Populations For MRSA Carriage Identified By Rhode Island Hospital Study

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
A Rhode Island Hospital study presented at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) annual meeting found that patients in long-term elder care and HIV-infected outpatients appear to be high-risk groups for carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a common caus ...

read more A Rhode Island Hospital study presented at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) annual meeting found that patients in long-term elder care and HIV-infected outpatients appear to be high-risk groups for carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a common caus read more Fri Apr 2007 Fri Apr 2007

Aggressive Screening For 'Superbugs' In Children

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
Infection control and critical care experts at The Johns Hopkins Hospital have ordered testing for the two most common hospital superbugs for every child admitted to its pediatric intensive care unit.The more stringent admission screening methods for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA ...

read more Infection control and critical care experts at The Johns Hopkins Hospital have ordered testing for the two most common hospital superbugs for every child admitted to its pediatric intensive care unit.The more stringent admission screening methods for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA read more Fri Apr 2007 Fri Apr 2007

CDC Recommending New Drugs To Treat Gonorrhea

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
CDC on Thursday recommended that physicians begin using a different class of medications to treat gonorrhea after surveys showed that drug-resistant cases of the sexually transmitted infection are on the rise nationwide, the AP/Forbes reports. Gonorrhea, which is believed to infect more than 700,000 ...

read more CDC on Thursday recommended that physicians begin using a different class of medications to treat gonorrhea after surveys showed that drug-resistant cases of the sexually transmitted infection are on the rise nationwide, the AP/Forbes reports. Gonorrhea, which is believed to infect more than 700,000 read more Tue Apr 2007 Tue Apr 2007

CDC Changes Recommendations For Gonorrhea Treatment Due To Drug Resistance - Few Treatment Options Remain For One Of The USA's Most Common STDs

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) no longer recommends antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones (ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, and levofloxacin) as a treatment for gonorrhea in the United States. This limits the options available to treat gonorrhea, one of the most common sexually trans ...

read more The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) no longer recommends antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones (ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, and levofloxacin) as a treatment for gonorrhea in the United States. This limits the options available to treat gonorrhea, one of the most common sexually trans read more Sun Apr 2007 Sun Apr 2007

3M Health Care Launches A New Weapon In The Fight Against MRSA - The First Rapid Culture-based Test With Results In Five Hours

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
Clinicians attending the 17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) learned today that there is a new weapon available in the fight against Methicillin-resistant Staphyloccocus aureus (commonly referred to as MRSA). Hospitals fighting the battle to stop the spr ...

read more Clinicians attending the 17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) learned today that there is a new weapon available in the fight against Methicillin-resistant Staphyloccocus aureus (commonly referred to as MRSA). Hospitals fighting the battle to stop the spr read more Tue Apr 2007 Tue Apr 2007

FDA May Approve Cattle Drug Which Could Lead To Drug Resistant Superbugs

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
The FDA may approve Cefquinome, an antibiotic, for cattle use. Cefquinome is currently used for human gastrointestinal diseases, as well as meningitis. According to an article in the Washington Post, giving this drug to cattle could lead to the emergence of superbugs - bugs that are resistant to d ...

read more The FDA may approve Cefquinome, an antibiotic, for cattle use. Cefquinome is currently used for human gastrointestinal diseases, as well as meningitis. According to an article in the Washington Post, giving this drug to cattle could lead to the emergence of superbugs - bugs that are resistant to d read more Sun Mar 2007 Sun Mar 2007

Causal Link Between Antibiotic Prescription And Antibiotic Resistance

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
The link between antimicrobial use and increasing resistance is established in an Article in this week's issue of The Lancet. This information should be a vital warning to physicians of the consequences of inappropriate and uncontrolled antibiotic prescribing.Resistance to antibiotics is a major pub ...

read more The link between antimicrobial use and increasing resistance is established in an Article in this week's issue of The Lancet. This information should be a vital warning to physicians of the consequences of inappropriate and uncontrolled antibiotic prescribing.Resistance to antibiotics is a major pub read more Sun Feb 2007 Sun Feb 2007

Tricks Of Common Sexually Transmitted Infection Revealed By TIGR Researchers

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
It's the world's most common non-viral sexually transmitted infection. There are an estimated 8 million cases of trich -- pronounced "trick" -- a year in North America and 170 million cases worldwide. But in a cover article in the January 12, 2007, issue of Science, researchers reveal many of trich' ...

read more It's the world's most common non-viral sexually transmitted infection. There are an estimated 8 million cases of trich -- pronounced read more Sat Jan 2007 Sat Jan 2007

Tough New Superbug Known To Athletes Spreading Openly Across US And Now Canada

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
Clones of the antibiotic-resistant MRSA superbug which has infected a number of professional football and baseball athletes as well as children in day care centres in the US is set to take Canada by force.This warning was issued in a pubic health commentary published in the Canadian Medical Associat ...

read more Clones of the antibiotic-resistant MRSA superbug which has infected a number of professional football and baseball athletes as well as children in day care centres in the US is set to take Canada by force.This warning was issued in a pubic health commentary published in the Canadian Medical Associat read more Wed Jan 2007 Wed Jan 2007

MRSA - Advanced Ozone Technology To Be Trialled In Hospitals

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
Stockport-based environmental hygiene specialist Steritrox has been awarded a research grant to develop their advanced ozone system to combat the growing threat to public health of MRSA, Clostridium Difficile and other acquired infections in hospitals.�The £168,000 research and development grant ...

read more Stockport-based environmental hygiene specialist Steritrox has been awarded a research grant to develop their advanced ozone system to combat the growing threat to public health of MRSA, Clostridium Difficile and other acquired infections in hospitals.�The £168,000 research and development grant read more Wed Jan 2007 Wed Jan 2007

New Method For Detecting Antibiotic Resistance: Mutations Emit Light Signals

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
The exchange of a single gene building block in the genetic material of the tuberculosis bacterium leads to resistance to the antibiotic rifampicin. Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) and the Universities of Heidelberg and Bielefeld, Germany, hav ...

read more The exchange of a single gene building block in the genetic material of the tuberculosis bacterium leads to resistance to the antibiotic rifampicin. Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) and the Universities of Heidelberg and Bielefeld, Germany, hav read more Sat Dec 2006 Sat Dec 2006

MRSA Licked By Pioneering Paint

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
A unique coating that can be painted on to hospital walls and floors has been unveiled as the latest weapon in the fight against superbugs such as MRSA.Tests by scientists at Sheffield Hallam University have proven that easy-on, an infection control coating, allows bacteria to be completely wiped of ...

read more A unique coating that can be painted on to hospital walls and floors has been unveiled as the latest weapon in the fight against superbugs such as MRSA.Tests by scientists at Sheffield Hallam University have proven that easy-on, an infection control coating, allows bacteria to be completely wiped of read more Fri Dec 2006 Fri Dec 2006

Hospital-Acquired Infections -- Inevitable? Belief Explored In The American Journal Of Medical Quality

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
In a press conference at Washington D.C.'s The Press Club, David B. Nash, MD, editor of The American Journal of Medical Quality, addressed hospital-acquired infections and the widespread anchoring belief - by both healthcare professionals and patients - that acquiring infections in the hospital is ...

read more In a press conference at Washington D.C.'s The Press Club, David B. Nash, MD, editor of The American Journal of Medical Quality, addressed hospital-acquired infections and the widespread anchoring belief - by both healthcare professionals and patients - that acquiring infections in the hospital is read more Mon Nov 2006 Mon Nov 2006

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