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Handwashing more important than isolation in controlling MRSA superbug infection
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Regular handwashing by hospital staff and visitors did more to prevent the spread of the MRSA superbug than isolating infected patients.
Cellphones may spread superbugs in hospitals: study
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Cell phones belonging to hospital staff were found to be tainted with bacteria -- including the drug-resistant MRSA superbug -- and may be a source of hospital-acquired infections, according to study released Friday.
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Plasma produces KO cocktail for MRSA
Nov 26, 2009 |
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MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) and other drug-resistant bacteria could face annihilation as low-temperature plasma prototype devices have been developed to offer safe, quick, easy and un ...
New study finds MRSA on the rise in hospital outpatients
Nov 24, 2009 |
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The community-associated strain of the deadly superbug MRSA -- an infection-causing bacteria resistant to most common antibiotics -- poses a far greater health threat than previously known and is making its way into hospitals, ...
Vaccines on horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, herpes
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working ...
MRSA strain linked to high death rates
Nov 01, 2009 |
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A strain of MRSA that causes bloodstream infections is five times more lethal than other strains and has shown to have some resistance to the potent antibiotic drug vancomycin used to treat MRSA, according to a Henry Ford ...
Animals now picking up bugs from people, study shows
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Globalisation and industrialisation are causing diseases to spread from humans to animals, a study has shown.
Keyboards and mice can harbor hospital infections
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Although hospital computer equipment can act as a reservoir for pathogenic organisms, including MRSA, researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases found that bacterial contamination rates from c ...
Microchip can detect type and severity of cancer
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Toronto researchers have used nanomaterials to develop a microchip sensitive enough to quickly determine the type and severity of a patient's cancer so that the disease can be detected earlier ...
C. difficile hypervirulence genes identified
Sep 25, 2009 |
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Five genetic regions have been identified that are unique to the most virulent strain of Clostridium difficile (C. difficile), the hospital superbug. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biolog ...
'Evolutionary forecasting' for drug resistance
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Rice University biochemists are developing a system of "evolutionary forecasting" to better understand the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance.
Who gets the antibiotics?
Sep 20, 2009 |
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At Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, a medical resident and avid bike rider in his late 20s noticed a nasty red swelling in his groin. A day and a half later, it had grown as big as a lime.
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