Return of the Staphylococcus aureus superbug
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Staphylococcus aureus causes a wide variety of diseases including boils and furuncles and more serious diseases such as septicemia and pneumonia, and a debate has long raged about the existence of S. aureus ...
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A new, highly drug-resistant strain of the âflesh-eatingâ MRSA bacteria is being spread among gay men in San Francisco and Boston, researchers reported on Monday.
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Scientists have claimed that essential oils usually used in aromatherapy can kill the hospital &#39;superbug&#39;, MRSA. According to researchers at the University of Manchester, tests carried out
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A study suggests that a virulent drug-resistant bacterium spreading in hospitals and nursing homes may be twice as common as once thought.
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Giving children antibiotics to ward off repeat urinary tract infections does not prevent the problem from returning and leads to infections that are resistant to the drugs, researchers said on Tuesday.
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If SARS comes back to haunt the world again, a team of Belgian scientists may have discovered a new weapon to use against it. Chloroquine, a drug used to fight malaria since World War II, has been found to
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Montreal - A bacterial infection is to blame for the death of about 600 people hospitalised in Montreal between April 2003 and April 2004, a scientist said.
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That&#39;s after a number of troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan were hit by infections. The bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii is resistant to most antibiotic drugs.
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A new study suggests that a solution to drug-resistant bacteria like staph could be forcing the bugs to kill themselves.
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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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An antibiotic-resistant germ is increasingly causing skin infections and pneumonia in otherwise healthy children and adults.
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Scientists have deciphered the process one species of bacteria uses to "resurrect" its genetic material after being blasted by radiation or parched by lack of water.
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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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UK researchers have developed a way of using light to detect the presence of bacteria.
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A new antibiotic shows promise, thus far in mice, for treating tuberculosis much faster than current drugs do, scientists report. Additional evidence indicates that the antibiotic may work against multidrug-resistant strains of the tuberculosis bug.
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A drug-resistant type of "superbug" bacteria called MRSA is more than eight times as common as believed in U.S. hospitals, putting patients at risk and posing a big hygiene problem, experts said on Tuesday.
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Robert B. Saper, MD, MPH ; Stefanos N. Kales, MD, MPH ; Janet Paquin, PhD ; Michael J. Burns, MD ; David M. Eisenberg, MD ; Roger B. Davis, ScD ; Russell S. Phillips, MD.