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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...
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...
CHICAGO, Sept. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "More than 285 Americans die every single day from a health-associated infection (HAI) that is mostly preventable and MRSA infections are at the top of the list," states Jeanine Thomas, founder of MRSA Survivors Network and World MRSA Day, October 2. Over two million Americans acquire an infection every year and many suffer greatly, become disabled and lose their quality of life - an infection is a dehumanizing experience. (Logo:...
High doses of vitamin B3 enhance immune system's infection-fighting ability, study shows Cedars-Sinai researchers have found that a common vitamin may have the potential to provide a powerful weapon to fight certain "superbugs," antibiotic-resistant staph infections that health experts see as a threat to public health. The research, published in the September 2012 edition of The Journal of Clinical Investigation, found that high doses of the nicotinamide form of vitamin B3 stimulated a...
Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Like fruits and vegetables, vitamins are considered necessary to maintain a healthy lifestyle. And scientists have long worked to study the effects of vitamin consumption. In particular, researchers recently discovered that nicotinamide, known also as vitamin B3, could help defend against antibiotic-resistant staph infections that are found more and more throughout the globe; these infections are seen as a public health danger as they...
Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online A study on sanctuary chimps demonstrated that a particular breed of these animals contain drug-resistant, human-associated strains of the bacteria Staphlyococcus aureus, a pathogen that could infect endangered wild ape populations if chimpanzees from sanctuaries are allowed to return to their natural habitat. The project was conducted by a group of veterinarians, ecologists, and microbiologists. It was the first to use modern...
CHICAGO, Aug. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Help us in the fight against MRSA. MRSA activists and survivors along with their families are uniting in the global fight against MRSA, healthcare-acquired infections (HAI's) and antimicrobial resistance. World MRSA Day, October 2 and World MRSA Awareness Month, October are designated annual awareness dates. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090825/DC65136LOGO) "The continued human suffering, disabling and loss of life from...
BALTIMORE, Aug. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), today announced that the new BD MAX(TM) MRSA molecular test has received a Moderate Complexity rating under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA '88). Performed on the fully-automated BD MAX(TM) System, the assay is designed to rapidly and accurately identify patients colonized with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). A...
SCRANTON, Pa., Aug. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- X-STATIC(®), the silver-based antimicrobial technology, released a whitepaper to educate infection preventionists on the issue of contamination of soft surface fabrics in healthcare settings. The whitepaper, titled "Soft Surface Bacterial Contamination: Considerations for a Complete Infection Prevention Program," examines current data, guidelines and available antimicrobial fabric solutions. Soft surface textiles such as privacy...
Latest Staphylococcaceae Reference Libraries
Staphylococcus epidermidis is one of thirty-three known species belonging to the genus Staphylococcus. It is part of our skin flora and can also be found in the mucous membranes and in animals. It is the most common species found in laboratory test due to contamination. It is not usually pathogenic; however, patients with a compromised immune system often risk infection. Infections can be both nosocomial and community acquired and are more of a threat to hospital patients. Hospitals carry...
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...
