MRSA

MRSA is a bacterial infection that is highly resistant to antibiotics, which may lead to its popularity as a tag. MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Staphylococcus aureus is the bacteria responsible.

Because MRSA is resistant to antibiotics, it is sometimes referred to as a "superbug."  Although MRSA is antibiotic-resistant, it can usually be treated with vancomycin. Recently, however, some strains of MRSA have developed some resistance to vancomycin, making it even more difficult to treat.

Most MRSA infections arise in hospitals or other health care facilities, but "community-associated" infections have been on the rise and are responsible for serious skin and soft-tissue infections and a serious form of pneumonia.

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• [Company Profile] MicroPhage

  
  OneMedPlace — Authority: 464
  People typically go into the hospital to get better, but many patients wind up sicker than when they came in. Hospital acquired infections (HAIs) such as Staphylococcus aureus (“staph”) can be deadly to patients with already weakened immune systems. Approximately 60 percent of patients with S. aureus ...
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• Bad news from California: MRSA quadrupled

  
  Superbug — Authority: 120
  Via the Fresno Business Journal and the Torrance Daily Breeze come reports of a new study by Californias Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development: Known MRSA cases in the states hospitals increased four-fold between 1999 and 2007, from 13,000 to 52,000 cases per year. From the Torrance paper: ...
  4 days ago

• MicroPhage Obtains CE Mark To Sell Worlds First Rapid MRSA/MSSA Test In Europe

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 719
  MicroPhage announced that it has obtained its CE Mark to market in Europe the first of its instrument-free, rapid tests based on its patented Bacteriophage Amplification technology. The Companys initial commercial product is designed to rapidly identify Staphylococcus aureus ("staph") bacteria as well as determine ...
  4 days ago

• Infection Control Education With Humor? - New Book from GiggleMed.com

  
  GiggleMed.com Medical Humor — Authority: 111
  Infection control humor for education?…Evidence-based medicine cartoon books?…What next? Agreement on healthcare reform?!Look… the educational materials in the healthcare professions can be pretty dry, downright boring, and ultimately, awesome dust magnets. So, we’re trying to change things a little bit (and ...
  5 days ago

• CT tests done to rule out pulmonary embolism often find something else

  
  Medical Search Tips, News, and Information for Healthcare Professionals — Authority: 118
  Primary care physicians need guidance about how to follow up on the growing number of incidental findings on CT angiography carried out to exclude a diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE), according to a study from North Carolina. In 589 such procedures, only 55 (fewer than one in 10) found evidence of PE, but fully ...
  6 days ago

• HOSPITAL NEGLIGENCE & INFECTION

  
  Legal Medicine — Authority: 126
  We often receive calls from Virginians who have suffered from a hospital acquired infection, like a staph (think MRSA) infection. Often times these infections are very painful and require additional hospitilization. Sadly, they can also be deadly. Unless however, there is evidence of unsanitary conditions, improper ...
  1 week ago

• Healthy and Energy Saving Laundry with the Opura Laundry System

  
  Keetsa Mattress Store - Keetsa! Blog - Eco-Friendly and Green News — Authority: 433
  The use of washing machines or dryers has been a notorious culprit when it comes to doing laundry the proper way. And for establishments that are investing in such a business, the Opura Laundry System may yet change their fortunes, offering a new and energy efficient way of cleaning clothes while also offering a ...
  1 week ago

• Drug-Resistant Hospital Bacteria Could Be Inactivated At Their Outset

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 719
  Most scientists believe that staph infections are caused by many bacterial cells that signal each other to emit toxins. The signaling process is called quorum sensing because many bacteria must be present to start the process. But the Jeff Brinker research group has determined that the very first stage of staph ...
  1 week ago

• NEJM: Antibiotics for pneumonia in H1N1

  
  Superbug — Authority: 120
  The New England Journal of Medicine has been running an open-access blog on H1N1 flu, and theyve put up a post on when to give antibiotics to prevent secondary bacterial pneumonia , including MRSA pneumonia , in flu patients. Theres a table of key clinical points to consider, and these important points are ...
  1 week ago

• Should Doctors Ditch the Tie?

  
  ACP Internist — Authority: 423
  Neckties worn by physicians may be contaminated with dangerous bacteria and viruses that are transported from patient to patient. The British Medical Association made a decision in 2006 that doctors should forgo wearing neckties because they carry germs and bacteria. The American Medical Association is looking at the ...
  1 week ago

• Service With A Smile

  
  The biopsy report — Authority: 114
  Hang on a minute, how could it be Wednesday already? Where did Tuesday go to? Thanks everyone for your very kind support, it’s much appreciated. I’m happy to report that all went smoothly at the hospital yesterday and I got home to the comfort of my own bed last night. My experience at the hand’s of the public ...
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• Plasma kills superbugs dead

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 436
  Via KurzweilAI.net — This is good news for a serious medical concern. Device spells doom for superbugs BBC News, Nov. 26, 2009 A prototype  device that uses “cold atmospheric plasma” to rid hands, feet, or even underarms of  bacteria , including the hospital superbug MRSA, has been developed by  Max ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cold plasma demonstrates clean doom for bacteria

  
  Eideard — Authority: 149
  Cold plasma to kill super bacteria.
  2 weeks ago

• MRSA Infections Nearly Doubled Over Last 10 Years: Study

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 479
  U.S. researchers indicate that there has been a 90% increase in antibiotic-resistant “superbug” infections since 1999, as strains circulating both in hospitals and the community continue relatively unabated. The study, published in the CDC’s Emerging Infectious Diseases medical journal, pulled data from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Antibiotics - the EU pipeline is empty too

  
  Superbug — Authority: 120
  Weve talked before about the shrinking number of drugs available to treat MRSA and about the challenges of getting new drugs to market . Well, its not just a problem in the United States. A new report from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Medicines Agency ...
  2 weeks ago

• Eradicating MRSA With New Plasma Technology

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 719
  MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) and other drug-resistant bacteria could face annihilation as low-temperature plasma prototype devices have been developed to offer safe, quick, easy and unfailing bactericidal cocktails. Two prototype devices have been developed: one for efficient disinfection of ...
  2 weeks ago

• New plasma prototype devices may help destroy MRSA

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Washington, Nov 27 (ANI): Two new devices have shown tremendous promise in fighting methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), as well as other drug-resistant bacteria. The two instruments are low-temperature plasma prototypes, which have demonstrated in tests that they can pose a real challenge to these ...
  2 weeks ago

• New pig strain in China

  
  Superbug — Authority: 120
  Via Emerging Infectious Diseases comes the full version of a piece of research I posted on in September that was presented at the London conference Methicillin-resistant Staphylococci in Animals: Veterinary and Public Health Implications. A new MRSA variant — not ST398 — has been spotted in pigs in China. ...
  2 weeks ago

• "Pig MRSA" in the EU - long-awaited survey

  
  Superbug — Authority: 120
  Its not very likely that people will be eating much pork today — OK, maybe some pancetta in the Brussels sprouts — and thats good, because theres lots of news today about MRSA in pigs . (In fact, theres a ton of news just this week. Make it stop.) The European Food Safety Authority has published a long-awaited, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bacteria-killing prototype relies on plasma, could obsolete hand washing

  
  F-Default — Authority: 464
      Time to get your science fiction hats on, but leave the fiction visor off this time. The BBC has gotten all hot and bothered today about a newly published research report indicating a significant advancement in the field of plasma-based disinfection of both healthy and wounded human skin Read more: ...
  2 weeks ago

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