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…
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Filed under: MRSA / Drug Resistance on February 3rd, 2012 | No Comments »
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…
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Filed under: MRSA / Drug Resistance on January 24th, 2012 | No Comments »
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…
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Filed under: MRSA / Drug Resistance on January 24th, 2012 | No Comments »
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…
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Filed under: MRSA / Drug Resistance on January 23rd, 2012 | No Comments »
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 […]
Filed under: MRSA / Drug Resistance on January 16th, 2012 | No Comments »
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…
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Filed under: MRSA / Drug Resistance on January 4th, 2012 | No Comments »
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…
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Filed under: MRSA / Drug Resistance on December 23rd, 2011 | No Comments »
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 […]
Filed under: MRSA / Drug Resistance on December 18th, 2011 | No Comments »
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…
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Filed under: MRSA / Drug Resistance on December 14th, 2011 | No Comments »
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 […]
Filed under: MRSA / Drug Resistance on December 12th, 2011 | No Comments »