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Do our medicines boost pathogens?

Scientists of the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITG) discovered a parasite that not only had developed resistance against a common medicine, but at the same time had become better in withstanding the human ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Elevated natural soil metals linked to antibiotic resistance

(Medical Xpress) -- Soils naturally-rich in heavy metals are contributing to the growing global problem of antibiotic resistance, new research has shown.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The best wastewater treatment plants can't filter out superbug fragments

Even a very good wastewater treatment plant can't clean up fragments of superbugs -- bacteria that have developed a resistance to antibiotics -- and until now, almost no one has noticed.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Careless disposal of antibiotics can create aquatic superbugs

A wastewater treatment plant can provide the perfect mating ground for carelessly disposed of antibiotics to form superbugs that are eventually discharged into streams and lakes, says a University of Michigan researcher.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

S.African hospital reports 'superbug' outbreak

A South African outbreak of a multi-drug resistant "superbug" has been contained after it infected nine patients of whom three were still in quarantine, a hospital group said Monday.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Hospital superbug debugged

An international team of scientists led by Monash University researchers has uncovered how a common hospital bacterium becomes a deadly superbug that kills increasing numbers of hospital patients worldwide and accounts for ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Decoding the proteins behind drug-resistant superbugs

Penicillin and its descendants once ruled supreme over bacteria. Then the bugs got stronger, and hospitals have reported bacterial infections so virulent that even powerful antibiotics held in reserve for ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ophthalmic antibiotics associated with antimicrobial resistance after intraocular injection therapy

Repeated exposure of the eye to ophthalmic antibiotics appears to be associated with the emergence of resistant strains of microbes among patients undergoing intraocular injection therapy for neovascular retinal disease, ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers work to develop screening method for superbug

A team of researchers from the University of Houston (UH) and St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital (SLEH) are working to develop improved screening methods to detect a potentially lethal, drug-resistant superbug ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Genomic analysis of superbug provides clues to antibiotic resistance

An analysis of the genome of a superbug has yielded crucial, novel information that could aid efforts to counteract the bacterium's resistance to an antibiotic of last resort. The results of the research led by scientists ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

GMO corn falls prey to bugs it was supposed to thwart

A voracious pest which has long plagued corn farmers is devouring a widely-used variety that was genetically modified to thwart the rootworms, raising fears of a new superbug.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 14

Eradicating dangerous bacteria may cause permanent harm

In the zeal to eliminate dangerous bacteria, it is possible that we are also permanently killing off beneficial bacteria as well, posits Martin Blaser, MD, Frederick H. King Professor of Medicine, professor of Microbiology ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

A major step forward in fighting superbugs

New research has identified a novel mechanism by which humans can defend themselves against the well known hospital superbug, Clostridium difficile.  The study provides us with critical information for ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Threat to United States from new European E. coli strain unclear

(Medical Xpress) -- Over the centuries, many unexpected things have come to the United States from Germany and caught on -- lager beer, sauerkraut, bratwurst and the Volkswagen Beetle are a few that come to mind -- but don't ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

WHO to help India probe 'superbug': report

The World Health Organisation will help India study whether a multi-drug resistant "superbug" allegedly found in New Delhi's water poses a health risk, a report Thursday said.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0