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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• Cold plasma demonstrates clean doom for bacteria

  
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  Cold plasma to kill super bacteria.
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• MRSA Infections Nearly Doubled Over Last 10 Years: Study

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 540
  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 ...
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• Eradicating MRSA With New Plasma Technology

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 702
  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 ...
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• New plasma prototype devices may help destroy MRSA

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  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 ...
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• Bacteria-killing prototype relies on plasma, could obsolete hand washing

  
  F-Default — Authority: 541
      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: ...
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• Cellphones and deadly MRSA Bacteria. Protect Your Mobile Phone

  
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  Author: emfprotection Keywords: deadly MRSA Bacteria Cellular Health Effects Cellular Telephone Use Brain Tumors Cellphones Brain Tumors Radio frequency limiting exposure Dr. Oz air-tube headset bluetooth emf cellphone dangers cell phone tower radiation safe airtube headset dangers ...
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• MRSA Strain on the Rise in Hospitals

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  Community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) is spreading in hospitals and other health care facilities, a study shows.
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• MRSA Threat Larger Than Previously Thought

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 735
  Washington, DC (AHN) – The rate of an infection-causing bacteria that is resistant to most antibiotics, is on the rise and is a more serious health threat than previously thought, according to a new study. Researchers, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, said in a statement that from 1999 to 2006, the ...
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• QD: News Every Day--a break in the health care reform action

  
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  ACP Internist s daily digest of news and events continues with updates on health care reform, influenza and other news. Health care reform With the Thanksgiving holiday approaching, theres not much news out of Washington on the health care reform bill, but its just the calm before the storm . Debate is expected to ...
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• MRSA Cases on the Rise; Two New Strains Detected, Study Finds

  
  Attorney At Law — Authority: 441
  The number of cases of the drug-resistant bacterial infection MRSA has nearly doubled in the last 10 years as the potentially fatal infections spread out of hospitals and other healthcare settings into schools, fitness centers, and other community settings, U.S. researchers say.Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus ...
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• Drug-resistant bacteria on increase in U.S

  
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  Cases of a drug-resistant bacterial infection known as MRSA have risen by 90 percent since 1999, and they are increasingly being acquired outside hospitals, researchers reported on Tuesday. They found two new strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus — MRSA for short — were circulating in patients ...
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• New study finds MRSA on the rise in hospital outpatients

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 163
  (Burness Communications) The community-associated strain of the deadly superbug MRSA an infection-causing bacteria resistant to most common antibiotics poses a far greater health threat than previously known and [...]
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• Antibiotic Resistance A Growing Problem, Particularly In Southern, Eastern Europe

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 702
  Antibiotic resistance is increasing throughout the world because of excessive use, Agence France-Press reports. The news service writes, "Experts at the 2nd annual European antibiotics awareness day held by the Stockholm-based European Centre for Diseases Prevention and Control (ECDC) said new, hyper-resistant ...
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• The good and bad of pet therapy

  
  Worms and Germs Blog — Authority: 419
  An article about at therapy dog demonstrates some good points of these programs and places to improve. It is about "Taco", a Chihuahua involved in pet therapy at the Livingston Regional Hospital (Tennessee). The obvious benefit of the program is highlighted by the owners comment " She creates smiles when there were ...
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• MRSA Is Also Airborne

  
  Great Product Direct — Authority: 158
  Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Arueus, or MRSA as it is commonly referred to, is a particularly difficult-to-treat bacterium strain that manifests primarily in lesions on the skin or other membranes. However, there is a strain known as CA-MRSA that can affect the bones, joints and the heart
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• New Chemical May Play Key Role In Hospital Superbugs Battle, UK

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 702
  A new chemical compound that mimics the bodys ability to fight bacteria could help target hospital-acquired infections such as MRSA and C.difficile. The compound, which could be added to detergents or used as a coating for hospital equipment, is able to trap and release the gas nitric oxide - which is also produced ...
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• Healthcare-associated infections

  
  Health Blogs at HealthBlogs.org — Authority: 104
  Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a global crisis.  Recognizing the rapid growth in cases of infection like MRSA and ventilator-associated pneumonia being picked up in hospitals, Kimblery-Clark Healthcare has put together a website called “Not on My Watch” at www.haiwatch.com to educate patients and ...
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• Recent Developments At Burnham Institute For Medical Research, November 2009

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 702
  New antibiotics for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other pesky bacteria. Andrei Osterman and collaborators have used comparisons of bacterial genomes to identify new targets for antibiotics and produced first-generation chemical inhibitors of a class of bacterial enzymes, called NadDs ...
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• Superbugs resistant to all drugs are rising experts warn

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 970
  Cases of potentially fatal superbugs resistant to all antibiotics are increasing across Britain and Europe experts have warned.
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• Antibiotic resistance: international news

  
  Superbug — Authority: 118
  Constant readers, weve often talked about MRSA and other resistant pathogens as a global problem (cf. these posts for resistance issues in Europe and these for resistance around the world ). But now there has been formal recognition that resistant bacteria respect no borders. On Nov. 3, the US government and the ...
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