|
Home > News > Tags > MRSA
|
|
30
Meat that is advertised as pesticide- and antibiotic-free, and sold at a premium for it, may have been kept apart from these dangerous chemicals, but apparently antibiotic-resistant bacteria didn't get the memo. A new study found that superbugs contaminate this type of meat as well.
Pigs raised both convention... |
31 January 2012
11:48 GMT |
 |
|
Over the past few years, a large number of factors have led to a steady rise in the number of bacteria species that are resistant to antibiotics. The microorganisms can learn to render the chemicals useless, and now experts finally managed to watch this process as it happened.
Investigators at the Princeton Univer... |
23 September 2011
18:11 GMT |
|
|
Following a new investigation, researchers were able to discover a new strain of a dangerous bacteria, living in cows and humans. The finding is very concerning because the microorganisms is already resistant to the action of standard antibiotics. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the leadi... |
3 June 2011
07:46 GMT |
|
|
Lately, experts have taken a keen interest in fighting antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria. These microorganisms can easily kill adult humans, and ironically they can be found in abundance on hospital equipment. But scientists are zeroing in on ways to kill them.In a new research, researchers in the United Kingd... |
5 April 2011
03:59 GMT |
|
|
The second-largest pharmaceutical company in the world – Merck, has developed an experimental vaccine against Staphylococcus aureus, which proved to be very well-tolerated and to stimulate antibodies, the American Society for Microbiology reports.S. aureus is the most frequent cause of hospital-acquired infecti... |
20 January 2011
06:20 GMT |
|
|
American researchers have developed antibodies against a MRSA protein, which interfere with the growth of the bacteria, and are very “attractive candidates” for the first vaccine against Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.Edward Schwarz from the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York,... |
17 January 2011
05:20 GMT |
|
|
A new study carried out by Rhode Island Hospital found the amounts and locations of MRSA colonization on the human body.Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus – MRSA, is usually carried in the nose (nares) and in this case, it is a risk factor for a very invasive infection, surgical site infection included... |
6 January 2011
03:55 GMT |
|
|
According to the latest discovery of a team of researchers from Vanderbilt University, Staphylococcus aureus bacteria affect people because they have a preference for human hemoglobin.This looks like a very good explanation and it also could mean that genetic variations in some patients' hemoglobin can make them... |
16 December 2010
08:13 GMT |
|
|
A new lighting system that can fight hospital infections like the Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and Clostridium difficile – C.diff., was developed by a team of researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, in Scotland.This technology uses a narrow spectrum of visible-light wavel... |
15 November 2010
08:42 GMT |
|
|
Scientists at the University of New Mexico are working on a new surface that could kill antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria, when associated with fluorescent light.The Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections are causing nearly 19,000 deaths and $3-4 billion in healthcare costs per year in the Un... |
20 October 2010
04:20 GMT |
|
|
University of California Irvine has received a three-year, $10 million funding to study new ways of preventing staph infections in people who have MRSA bacteria when they get out of the hospital.[ADMARK]The $10 million grant is part of Recovery Act investment in comparing the effectiveness of new methods to prevent s... |
2 October 2010
05:30 GMT |
|
|
A team of investigators in the United States has successfully developed a new type of advanced coating, which has the ability to destroy methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).This microorganism is one of the most dangerous sources of hospital infections, given that it can survive even in the mo... |
30 August 2010
03:12 GMT |
|
|
Experts recently managed to develop two new, different approaches of attacking the MRSA, and destroying it for good. Their findings could help save countless lives. MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium that is among the leading causes of deaths from hospital infections around the w... |
17 August 2010
08:39 GMT |
|
|
The medical dressing will release antibiotics from nanocapsules, activated by the presence of disease-causing pathogenic bacteria, targeting treatment before the infection aggravates. The advanced wound dressing will also change color when the antibiotics are released, thus alerting doctors that an infection is prese... |
8 July 2010
02:51 GMT |
|
|
Hospitals have become over recent years the top places where patients can get bacterial infections from, in spite of experts' best efforts to disinfect the buildings. It would appear that resilient bacteria such as the Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have become fond of setting up residence in... |
4 December 2009
04:40 GMT |
|
|
Two new devices, created by German scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, and Japan-based ADTEC Plasma Technology Ltd., show tremendous promise in fighting methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), as well as other resilient bacteria. The two instruments are low-temperature pla... |
26 November 2009
16:01 GMT |
|
|
Some of the world's most lethal superbugs, such as the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria, have the ability to start generating large amounts of toxins inside the host organisms, namely in humans, once they infect them. When that happens, the immune systems of sufferers become highly act... |
25 May 2009
15:01 GMT |
|
|
Given the increasing incidence of MRSA infections in US hospitals, over the past years scientists have been trying to create chemicals that would finally eradicate the resilient Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria, as well as other related microorganisms. They wreak havoc in hospitals, as they... |
25 March 2009
10:02 GMT |
|
|
Although doctors and other health experts have yet to figure out exactly how harmful cell phones are to the human brain, one thing is for sure, their batteries are a real “death trap.” New studies show that the devices themselves carry numerous bacteria that can only live in that certain environment, but ... |
17 March 2009
10:47 GMT |
|
|
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) triggers a very unpleasant infection in humans, and especially in those with an already-weak immune system. It can be contracted both in the community (CA-MRSA) and in health care facilities, such as hospitals and free clinics (HA-MRSA), and it acts by lodging itself... |
30 January 2009
07:03 GMT |
|
|
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is posing increasing challenges to the US Health Department, which sees a rise in the number of US children infected with the very resistant bug each year. Health officials warn that the incidence of the bug is on the rise, and that most cases see the contamination o... |
20 January 2009
05:56 GMT |
|
|
|
|
Find us on Google+
