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Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Most people are already exposed to the common bacterium Staphylococcus aureus as it is typically found on human skin and respiratory tracts. It seeks out opportunities to infect through access points on our body like hair follicles or open sores. A mutated form of this germ, a so-called ‘superbug’ known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), is immune to first-line antibiotics and can cause a dangerous form of...
A strain of the potentially deadly antibiotic-resistant bacterium known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has jumped from food animals to humans, researchers reported Tuesday in the online journal mBio. The study, led by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), suggests that MRSA CC398 likely started as a non-resistant (antibiotic-susceptible) strain in humans, but developed resistance to antibiotics after spreading to farm animals. MRSA is a well-known...
New hope for total joint replacement patients Methicillin resistant staph aureus (MRSA) infections are resistant to antibiotics and can cause a myriad of problems -- bone erosion, or osteomyelitis, which shorten the effective life of an implant and greatly hinder replacement of that implant. MRSA can result in prolonged disability, amputation and even death. Although only 2 percent of the American population that undergo total joint replacement surgery will suffer an infection, half of...
Embrace Health, Inc. announces the launch of its new Recovery Program for MRSA / Staph infections on 30 November 2011. Port Townsend, WA (PRWEB) December 21, 2011 Embrace Health, Inc. (a leader in Staph Infection and MRSA Treatment education online since 2008) announced a new educational program [launched worldwide on November 30, 2011] called the Recovery Program exclusively for sufferers of Staph Infections. This Staph Infection resource is a comprehensive collection of educational...
A Johns Hopkins Children's Center study of more than 3,000 hospitalized children shows that those colonized but not sick with the antibiotic-resistant bacterium MRSA are at considerable risk for developing full-blown infections. The study, described online in the Aug. 30 issue of the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, is believed to be the first of its kind to measure the risk of invasive MRSA infection in children who carry the germ but have no symptoms. The findings show that the risk...
MRSA transmission may be occurring in fire stations, according to a study published in the June issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of APIC "“ the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.The purpose of the study, conducted by investigators from the University of Washington School of Public Health, was to determine potential areas within the fire stations that were contaminated with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus...
The latest episode in the American Chemical Society's (ACS) award-winning podcast series, "Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions," focuses on new blood test that can quickly tell whether patients are infected with an antibiotic-resistant bacterium that's become a global threat, significantly improving treatment.This "superbug" is called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or simply MRSA. The podcast explains how MRSA started off as a threat mainly in hospitals and...
Most people would never suspect that a "trash tree," one with little economic value and often removed by farmers due to its ability to destroy farmland, could be the key to fighting a deadly bacterium. Now, a University of Missouri researcher has found an antibiotic in the Eastern Red Cedar tree that is effective against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a "superbug" that is resistant to most medications."I wanted to find a use for a tree species...
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) causes nearly 500,000 hospitalizations and 19,000 deaths a year in the United States. Scientists are now a step closer to developing a vaccine to prevent life-threatening MRSA infections after bone and joint surgery.Previous research hasn't produced a viable option for patients because of the inability to identify an agent that can break through the deadly bacteria's unique armor. Orthopedic scientists at the University...
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- In an attempt to stop the MRSA superbug, the Infectious Disease Society of America (ISDA) released its first-ever guidelines for the treatment of MRSA, helping physicians manage the common antibiotic-resistant infection.MRSA in the most common type of skin infection that sends people to the ER, and its invasive nature kills approximately 18,000 people a year."MRSA has become a huge public health problem, and physicians often struggle with how to treat it,"...
