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Company Responds to Call from World Economic Forum Describing Antimicrobial Resistance as Greatest Threat to Global Health WALTHAM, Mass., March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Alere Inc. (NYSE: ALR) is pleased to announce the launch today of a new campaign, Test Target Treat(TM), at the 9(th) Annual International Symposium on Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance. The campaign is designed to combat antimicrobial resistance by educating healthcare professionals on the importance of using...
Antimicrobial Copper Products in Hospitals Should Be Considered as a Response to CDC's Latest Warning on Lethal Bacteria NEW YORK, March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Deadly bacterial infections are on the rise in American hospitals, as antibiotics are being overcome by germs known as carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE). While many antibiotics have failed to treat bacteria such as CRE, Antimicrobial Copper has been proven to continuously kill greater than 99.9% of bacteria* that...
Proceeds from the event will be used to fund important research projects at universities and major medical institutions throughout the United States. Stamford, CT (PRWEB) March 11, 2013 Lyme Research Alliance (LRA) today announced it will honor Yolanda Foster, one of the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” with its Star Light Award, and Mark W. Eshoo, Ph.D and Steven E. Schutzer, MD with the Lauren F. Brooks Hope Award at LRA’s “Time for Lyme” Gala on April 6 at the Hyatt...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Climate change, terrorism and cyber-crime are all issues that are a dire threat to a nation, and now Britain’s top health official says that “superbugs” should be added to that list. The danger posed by the growing number of bacteria resistant to antibiotics is as dangerous to the country as other top threats. Professor Dame Sally Davies, chief medical officer for England, warned that routine operations could become deadly...
Midbrook Medical is launching their state of the art infection control station, UV Flash during AORN in San Diego, CA. Designed to eliminate transient bacteria found on everyday items and objects used and handled by healthcare workers, UV Flash kills C. dificile, Staph and MRSA in sixty seconds, dramatically reducing the risk of potentially deadly hospital acquired infections. Jackson, MI (PRWEB) February 27, 2013 Now, more than ever, hospitals and healthcare facilities are looking for...
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Savara Pharmaceuticals today announced the formation of its Clinical Advisory Board to provide clinical guidance to the company as it advances the development of its lead product, AeroVanc(TM) for the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) lung infection in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). The Clinical Advisory Board is comprised of five prominent thought leaders within the cystic fibrosis and infectious disease...
New evidence shows that the cause of chronic sinusitis if often Staphylococcus aureus, a difficult bacteria to treat. Hydro Med suggests a natural way to reduce bacteria count to enable natural healing. Mission Hills, Ca. (PRWEB) February 20, 2013 Why do thirty five million persons in the U.S. have chronic sinusitis, despite modern technologies and drugs? Why are there so many treatment failures? The answer is that a nasty bug is the cause. At the International Forum of Allergy and...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Trichomoniasis (trich) is the most common curable sexually transmitted Infection (STI), yet only one in five (22%) women are familiar with it, according to a new survey commissioned by the American Sexual Health Association (ASHA). Women surveyed perceive trich as the least common STI, when in reality there are more new cases of trich annually in the U.S. (7-8 million) than syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea...
FLEMINGTON, N.J., Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Joseph Gugliotta, M.D., an Infectious Disease Specialist at Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington, N.J., successfully diagnosed and treated the first confirmed case of Borrelia miyamotoi, a bacteria carried by ticks that causes symptoms similar to Lyme disease, in North America. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130220/PH62294 ) The findings, published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine on Jan. 17,...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Yesterday (Feb 14) was a day of love for most people, celebrating that love by sending romantic cards, fragrant flowers and decadent chocolates to their significant others. But the day that so often ends up with lovers hitting the hay for a little after-hours, extra-curricular activity, may be more troublesome than what they had anticipated. This comes thanks to a new US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report...
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Vibrio vulnificus is a species of Gram-negative, motile, curved, rod-shaped bacteria of the Vibrio Genus. Hollis et al. first reported it in 1976. It was given the name Beneckea vulnifica by Reichelt et al. in 1976 and in 1979 Vibrio vulnificus by Farmer. V. vulnificus is related to V. cholerae and is present in marine environments such as estuaries, brackish ponds, or coastal areas. It causes an infection often incurred after eating seafood, especially raw or undercooked oysters. It can...
Vibrio cholerae is a gram negative comma-shaped bacterium with a polar flagellum that causes cholera in humans. V. cholerae belongs to the gamma subdivision of the Proteobacteria. Classical and El Tor are the two types of V. Cholerae identified by hemaggluttination testing. El Tor is found throughout the world, while the classical biotype is found only in Bangladesh. It was first isolated as the cause of cholera by Italian anatomist Filippo Pacini in 1854; however, this discovery was not...
Streptococcus pyogenes is a spherical, Gram-positive bacterium is the cause of Group A streptococcal infections. It displays streptococcal group A antigen on its cell wall. When it is cultured on blood agar plates it produces large zones of beta-hemolysis. They are catalase-negative and in ideal conditions it has an incubation period of about 1-3 days. It is an infrequent part of the skin flora. It is the cause of many important human diseases, ranging from mild superficial skin infections...
Staphylococcus aureus is a facultative anaerobic gram-positive coccus, and is the most common cause of staph infections. It is commonly part of the skin flora found in the nose and on skin. Around 20% of the human population is long-term carriers. It gets its golden color due to its carotenoid pigment staphyloxanthin. The pigment acts as a virulence factor with an antioxidant action that allows the microbe to evade death by reactive oxygen species used by the host immune system. Staphylococci...
Rickettsia rickettsii is a gram-negative bacterium native to the New World and causes the malady known as Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF). It is transmitted through the bit of an infected tick when it feeds on animals and humans. Humans are not necessary hosts in the rickettsia-tick life cycle but they can be. S. Burt Wolbach created the first detailed description of the etiologic agent in 1919. He recognized it as an intracellular bacterium seen most frequently in endothelial cells....
