Drug-Resistant Infections on the Rise
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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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The flu bug appears to develop a rapid resistance to one of the drugs envisioned as a front-line defence against the next major influenza pandemic.
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NEW YORK  - The rate of skin and soft tissue infections that were resistant to most antibiotics, acquired in Chicago communities, increased rapidly between 2000 and 2005, researchers report.
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Health officials in New York City reveal a new highly drug-resistant strain of HIV in  a local resident.
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FRIDAY, Dec. 15 (HealthDay News) -- An international epidemic of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis may be more widespread than previously thought, says an article in this week's issue of The Lancet .
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Illegally selling prescription drugs over-the-counter is adding to the growing problem of antibiotic resistance, according to a recent study.
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Hospitals can stem the alarming spread of a dangerous and drug-resistant staph infection by screening new patients and keeping them quarantined, say doctors who tried this novel approach.
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The problem of multidrug-resistant TB may be even more severe than previously thought, experts warn.
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Health officials said the student had become infected with a virulent, drug-resistant strain of bacteria that is primarily spread in hospitals but that in recent years has surfaced increasingly in nonhospital settings.
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Among patients treated at urban public hospital emergency rooms for skin and soft-tissue infections, more and more often the cause appears to be the antibiotic-resistant 'superbug' known as MRSA, new research shows.
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WASHINGTON: World Health Organisation and US medical experts warn that the increasing ability of bacteria to resist antibiotics threatens the existing arsenal of drugs against dangerous infectious diseases.
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A new strategy for combating antibiotic resistance could turn back the clock and make old antibiotics useful again. Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is spreading at an alarming pace.
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New tests show that the multiple-drug-resistant TB is still dangerous, but susceptible to more drug treatments.
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Many infectious diseases have been eradicated in Europe but new infections and drug resistant microbes pose a new threat, a new EU report presented Thursday in Stockholm showed.
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Rates of the superbug MRSA are falling, but the potentially more dangerous C. difficile is thriving, figures show.
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Tuberculosis may reach the point where most new cases in some countries are resistant to many drugs unless far greater efforts are made now.
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Think of germs as gangsters. One thug lurking on a corner you might outrun, but a dozen swaggering down the street? Yikes. Bacteria make their own gangs, clustering quietly in the body until there's a large enough group to begin an attack. This is the next frontier in fighting drug-resistant superbugs. The idea: Don't just try to kill bacteria. The bugs will always find a way to thwart the next antibiotic.