Latest Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Stories

As a result of concerns about antibiotic resistance, doctors in the United States are increasingly prescribing newer, more costly and more powerful antibiotics to treat urinary tract infections, one of the most common illnesses in women. New research at Oregon State University suggests that the more powerful medications are used more frequently than necessary, and they recommend that doctors and patients discuss the issues involved with antibiotic therapy – and only use the stronger...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Despite the best efforts of hospitals to maintain effective sanitation levels, dangerous ‘superbugs’ can drift along air currents and spread from patient to patient, according to new research from the University of Leeds in the U.K. Previous studies have shown superbugs, like the difficult-to-treat MRSA, have spread around hospital wards through contact. These pathogens can be passed to surfaces, picked up by individuals, and...

Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Dutch Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), and the VU University Medical Center Amsterdam recently found that people who reside near livestock could be at an increased risk of contracting Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). According to researchers, Staphylococcus aureus can lead to respiratory, urinary, skin, and...

CHICAGO, Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- MRSA activists are demanding that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declare MRSA an ongoing epidemic in U.S. Healthcare facilities, in the community and inform U.S. Congress. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121009/DC88730) MRSA is spreading at alarming rates in the community and within healthcare facilities worldwide. MRSA colonization and infections are occurring in pets, farm and zoo animals. MRSA...

DURHAM, N.C., Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A first of its kind study conducted by the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine found standard control curtains were 8 times more likely to be contaminated with the superbug vancomycin resistant enterrococus (VRE) than experimental PurThread privacy curtains which only had 1 positive VRE culture during the entire study. Additionally, the median time to first contamination of PurThread curtains took seven times longer than control...

Scientists at Queen's University Belfast have developed a new technique which has the potential to kill off hospital superbugs like Pseudomonas aeruginosa, C. difficile and MRSA. As revealed in the most recent edition of leading journal PloS One, the novel method uses a cold plasma jet to rapidly penetrate dense bacterial structures known as biofilms which bind bacteria together and make them resistant to conventional chemical approaches. The new approach developed by scientists in the...

CHICAGO, Oct. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- MRSA survivors and their families along with healthcare personnel and lawmakers gathered for the MRSA Survivors Network's 4(th) Annual World MRSA Day Kickoff Event on Sept. 29, 2012 in Chicago. The event was a great success and raised awareness for the fight against MRSA, educated attendees and was a very healing experience for those who attended. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090825/DC65136LOGO) Richard Branson, founder...

SKILLMAN, N.J., Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study looking at infections following joint replacement surgery finds a 78 percent decrease in joint infections when AQUACEL(®) Ag SURGICAL cover dressing was used.(1) The results were presented at a ConvaTec-sponsored webcast on the global impact of deadly wound infections and the need to reduce the risk to patients last week in Washington, DC. Even as joint replacement surgery becomes more commonplace, the incidence of...

Dr. Russell Russo, an Orthopedic Surgeon at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, and other researchers stress that orthopedists should have a high index of suspicion for necrotizing fasciitis, or flesh-eating bacterial infection, in every patient with pain or other symptoms that are out of proportion to the initial diagnosis. Their recommendations are published in the September 2012 issue of Orthopedics Today. Although relatively rare and difficult to diagnose because its symptoms often...

GEORGETOWN, Texas, Sept. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- DiFusion announced today the completion of a series of in vivo and in vitro clinical tests which substantiate their claim that CleanFUZE resists surgical infection and promotes bone growth. "Our clinical tests have shown repeatedly that we have a new biomaterial which eradicates MRSA bacterium 99.998%," says Joseph Crudden, PhD, Vice President of Research at DiFusion. CleanFUZE is a new load-bearing polymer from which any orthopedic...