UF researchers kill resistant bugs one bandage at a time
...eria, such as methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci, cause about 70 percent of those infections. "Those are the two classes of bacteria that are now epidemic in the U.K.," said Gregory Schultz, Ph.D., director of UF's Institute for Wound Research and one of the in...Two studies document rise of superbugs in the environment
...dren's Hospital conducted a three-year study of S. aureus infections in children. They found that among S. aureus isolates acquired in the community, the proportion of isolates that were MRSA had reached 76 percent...Community MRSA is re-emergence of 1950s pandemic, study suggests
...53, type 80/81 penicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria caused skin lesions, sepsis and pneumonia in children and young adults around the world. This pandemic of both hospital and community acquired infections waned throughout the 1960s as the antibiotic meticillin was used to treat these infecti...To Stop Evolution: New Way Of Fighting Antibiotic Resistance Demonstrated By Scripps Scientists
...hospital infection-causing bacteria Staphylococcus aureus are resistant to all antibiotics except vancomycin, which is a drug of last resort, and some strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae are even resistant to vancomycin. Certain strains of Shigella dysenteriae, the cause of epidemic dysentery, have even bec...U of M researcher examines newly emerging deadly disease
...tococci, but also against methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), with the consideration that the staphyloco...ed from massive cytokine release induced by the S. aureus strains. ......es like multi-resistant E. coli and Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), the bacterium that causes methicillin-resistant tuberculosis, provide good examples of the challenges we face, says Dr. Davies. Ironically, he says, advances in molecular biology techniques have shown just how adept these pathogens are at ad...