Resistant Staph Struck Rapidly
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The 30th of November unfolded as a typical Friday for Merry King. She spent the day teaching special-needs children at Herbert Hoover Middle School in affluent Potomac, then went home and planned for a weekend trip to New York to visit her daughter and see Manhattan decked out in holiday splendor.
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Loyola University Medical Center on Monday announced plans to start testing all incoming patients for a drug-resistant staph germ and isolating those who carry the dangerous bacteria.
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The flu virus is becoming resistant to key drugs used to treat it, a study suggests.
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South African officials said the   spread of highly drug resistant tuberculosis to a Johannesburg   hospital was a "wake-up call" to intensify work on defenses   against the possibility of a deadly outbreak.
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An antibiotic often used in hospital intensive care units to treat serious staph infections resistant to other medicines may cause a sometimes-fatal bleeding condition, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is so-called because it is immune to the antibiotic methicillin. But scientists at Worcestershire firm Pharmaceutica found this resistance coud be neutralised by an amino acid called glycine.
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By Kathleen Doheny, HealthDay Reporter    HealthDayNews -- A bacterium that is becoming more resistant to first-line antibiotics is causing record numbers of skin infections in otherwise healthy children, according to a new study.    The bacterium, called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), is also emerging as a cause of pneumonia, which can be fatal...
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It recalls a solution that might be linked to a rare infection.
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In the wake of new attention to the dangers of drug-resistant staph bacteria, schools and other keyboard-intensive organizations are seriously considering how they can best purge their workplaces of such hazards.
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Nine athletes and a coach at Iona College contracted an antibiotic-resistant staph infection, which has spread through schools nationwide, health officials said Friday.
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The number of deaths linked to a hospital bug called Clostridium difficile has outstripped those due to MRSA, statistics show.
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A drug-resistant strain of potentially deadly bacteria has moved beyond the borders of U.S. hospitals and is being transmitted among gay men during sex, researchers said on Monday.
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Researchers claim to have  found a way to make MRSA vulnerable to the antibiotic it normally resists.
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Scientists believe they may have found a way to stop bacteria becoming resistant to drug treatments.
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An antibiotic could treat TB much faster than current drugs and beat problems of resistance, researchers hope.
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NEW YORK  - An antibiotic-resistant germ is  increasingly causing skin infections and pneumonia in otherwise  healthy children and adults.
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A WOMAN who claims she was struck down with the deadly superbug MRSA while in hospital launched a landmark legal battle yesterday to win 30,000 compensation.