Genes key to staph disease severity, drug resistance found hitchhiking together

Scientists studying Staphylococcus bacteria, including methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), have discovered a potent staph toxin responsible for disease severity. They also found the gene for the toxin traveling with a genetic component of Staphylococcus that controls resistance to antibi...

Immune System Gene Discovery Sheds Light on Staph Infections

Findings could lead to better therapies for severe forms of the disease TUESDAY, July 21 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have figured what genes turn on and off in a person's immune system when he or she has a severe staph infectio...

Researchers map how staph infections alter immune system

DALLAS July 14, 2009 Infectious disease specialists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have mapped the gene profiles of children with severe Staphylococcus aureus infections, providing crucial insight into how the human immune system is programmed to respond to this pathogen and opening new do...

Jury Awards $5.45 Million to Bronx Man With A Misdiagnosed Staph Infection, New York Medical Malpractice Attorney David Perecman Comments

New York medical malpractice lawyer, David Perecman, reviews the facts leading to the verdict and offers his thoughts. New York, NY (PRWEB) June 10, 2009 -- This month a Bronx man who almost lost his life due to a misdiagnosis at Montefiore Medical Center's emergency ro...

HJF enters cooperative agreement to develop vaccine for staph infections

ROCKVILLE, MD, (Dec. 17, 2008)The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (HJF) has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) and Maryland-based Nabi Biopharmaceutical...

Professional Sports Teams Should Use MRSA Screening and Other Aggressive Methods to Prevent Staph Infections

CDC RECOMMENDATIONS ARE PASSIVE AND INEFFECTIVE NEW YORK, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "The NFL and other professional sports organizations should be using the most effective tool to protect their players from Staph infections, MRSA screening," says Betsy McCaughey, Ph.D., Chairman of ...

Pennsylvania Health Department Offers Measures to Reduce Spread of Drug-Resistant Staph Known as 'MRSA'

HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following reports of outbreaks of a drug-resistant staph in schools and other community settings, Pennsylvania Deputy Health Secretary Michael Huff today said there are measures that people can take to reduce the risk of contracting or sprea...

American Academy of Dermatology Research Shows Athletes Susceptible to Antibiotic-Resistant Staph Infections

Dermatologists urge athletes, coaches and trainers to follow simple steps to prevent further spreading of MRSA SCHAUMBURG, Ill., June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, commonly referred to as MRSA, is a type of staph that causes infections resistan...

Scientists uncover how superbug Staph aureus resists our natural defenses

Researchers at the University of Washington have uncovered how the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, including the notorious MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staph aureus) superbug strains, resists our body's natural defenses against infection. The work, which was featured on the cover of the March 21 i...

Community-Based Staph Pneumonia More Common Than Thought

Many cases are linked to drug-resistant bacteria, CDC study finds WEDNESDAY, March 19 (HealthDay News) -- Pneumonia caused by the Staphylococcus aureas bacterium and caught outside of the hospital environment may be more common in the United States than previously believed, prelimina...

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Blue Light Destroys Antibiotic-Resistant Staph Infection - Results Reported in Photomedicine and Laser Surgery Journal

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Two common strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, commonly known as MRSA, were virtually eradicated in the laboratory by exposing them to a wavelength of blue light, in a process called photo-irradiation that is described in a paper pu...

First Molecular Tem-PCR Test to Identify Multiple Forms of Staph and MRSA Obtains CLIA Certificate

Identifies deadly hospital pathogens A single, fast and accurate test identifies four Staph strains simultaneously HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Diatherix Laboratories, an independent clinical reference laboratory located in the Huds...

Pharmaceutical Companies Lead Fight Against Staph and Other Infectious Diseases

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new report released today by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) finds that America's pharmaceutical research companies are now testing 338 new medicines to help treat infectious diseases, including 11 medicines and f...

VA National Campaign Takes Aim at Resistant Staph Infections

VA Medical Facilities Leaders in Fight Against MRSA WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Building on the success of a pilot program that reduced a worrisome staph infection by 50 percent, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has tough new screening requirements now in place in a...

Molnlycke Drives 'Home' the Fight Against Staph and Other MRSA Infections

New Hibistat(R) Germicidal Towelettes Offer Consumers Convenience and Reliability In Fight Against Super Germs NORCROSS, Ga., Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Once almost exclusively confined to hospital settings, drug-resistant staph infections, such as MRSA (methicillin-resistant Sta...

BD Announces FDA 510(K) Submission of Rapid Molecular Test to Identify Patients Carrying Staph Superbug Prior to Surgery

First Molecular Test to Simultaneously Identify Staphylococcus Aureus and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus from Nasal Specimens SAN DIEGO, Sept. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX ), announced today that it has ...

Trius Announces Positive Results From Phase 2 Clinical Trial of Torezolid in Patients With Complicated Skin and Skin Structure Infections

...r enzymes. "The efficacy and safety of torezolid in this trial demonstrate its potential for the rapid treatment of severe infections caused by staph aureus , including MRSA, in both the community and the hospital," said Jeffrey Stein, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Trius. "Later this year we wi...

Trius Therapeutics Announces Presentations Featuring Torezolid Antibiotic at the 19th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

... Clinical results and advantage over linezolid in resistance acquisition by staph aureus among data to be presented at infectious disease meeting SAN DIEGO, Calif., May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Trius Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceu...

MicroPhage Successfully Completes Beta Trial for Rapid MRSA Test

...dipstick-like detectors. One detector shows if the sample is infected with staph bacteria and the other measures antibiotic susceptibility/resistance. ...cteriophage proteins on the test strip indicates the sample is positive for staph bacteria. For susceptibility analysis, the organism in the sample is chall...

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Paper Supports Additional Role for Cethromycin as Potential Treatment for Infections Caused by Community- Associated Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (CA-MRSA)

...bout Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a type of bacteria that is resistant to certain antibiotics. staph infections, including MRSA, occur most frequently among persons in hospitals and healthcare facilities, such as nursing homes and dialysis centers, wh...

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New technology shows promise against resistant staph infections

April 29, 2009 (BRONX, NY) Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have combined their revolutionary new drug-delivery system with a powerful antimicrobial agent to treat potentially deadly drug-resistant staph infections in mice. The study is published this month...

Swimmers at public beaches show increased risk of exposure to contagious staph bacteria

Research, funded by multiple agencies and conducted by the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, found that swimmers using public ocean beaches increase their risk for exposure to staph organisms, and may increase their ...

Blue light destroys antibiotic-resistant staph infection

New Rochelle, NY, January 29, 2009Two common strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus , commonly known as MRSA, were virtually eradicated in the laboratory by exposing them to a wavelength of blue light, in a process called photo-irradiation that is described in a paper published on...

UT Public Health researchers find link to severe Staph infections

Researchers at The University of Texas School of Public Health recently described studies that support the link between the severity of community-acquired antibiotic-resistant Staph ylococcus aureus (CA MRSA) infections and the Panton Valentine leukocidin (PVL). The Panton Valentine leuk...

A novel target for therapeutics against Staph infection

Researchers at the Texas A&M Health Science Center Institute of Biosciences and Technology, and the University of Edinburgh have uncovered how a bacterial pathogen interacts with the blood coagulation protein fibrinogen to cause methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections, a fi...

Turning on cell-cell communication wipes out staph biofilms

University of Iowa researchers have succeeded in wiping out established biofilms of Staphylococcus aureus (staph) by hijacking one of the bacteria's own regulatory systems. Although the discovery is not ready for clinical application, the findings offer insight into a dispersal mechanism for staph...

Best treatment identified to reduce deadly Staph infections

LAS VEGAS One type of over-the-counter product for topical wound care is more effective than others in killing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, or MRSA, which is potentially deadly and in recent years has moved from its historic hospital setting to a much broader public conce...

Scripps research team blocks bacterial communication system to prevent deadly staph infections

LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA, OCT. 30, 2007 -- In hopes of combating the growing scourge of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, in particular drug-resistant staph bacteria, a team of scientists from the Scripps Research Institute has designed a new type of vaccine that could one day be used in humans to block ...

Study indicates dramatic rise in antibiotic-resistant community-acquired staph infections

Staph infections resistant to antibiotics, previously only associated with hospitalization or prior contact with the healthcare system, are now widespread in the community and coming home. A new study from Emory University School of Medicine and Grady Memorial Hospital, featured in the March 7, ...

Emerging staph strains found to be increasingly deadly and deceptive

A study of how the immune system reacts to strains of antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria--emerging strains that sicken otherwise healthy people, or so-called "community-acquired" infections--has shown for the first time that these strains are more deadly and better at evading human...

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New approach may render disease-causing staph harmless

Researchers at the University of Illinois helped lead a collaborative effort to uncover a completely new treatment strategy for serious Staphylococcus aureus (Staph) infections. The research, published Feb. 14 in ScienceXpress, the online version of Science magazine, comes at a time when strains o...

Researchers Pinpoint Best Treatment to Reduce Deadly USA300, MRSA Staph Infections

CORVALLIS, Ore., Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a recent College of Pharmacy study at Oregon State University, one type of over-the-counter product for minor wound care is substantially more effective than others in killing MRSA, including the virulent strain USA300. Scientists conductin...

Pharmacy Compounds Liquid Mupirocin for the Chronic Sinusitis Patient

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NovaBay and Galderma Enter Into Global Agreement to Develop and Commercialize NovaBay's Novel Aganocide Drugs for Major Dermatological Conditions

... Scratching can also spread the sores to other parts of the body. Impetigo is caused by one of two types of bacteria - strep ( streptococcus ) or staph ( staphylococcus ). Often these bacteria enter the body when the skin has already been irritated or injured due to other skin problems such as eczema...

PURE Bioscience Schedules Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results Conference Call for March 12, 2009 at 1:30 P.M. PDT

...ce PURE Bioscience develops and markets technology-based bioscience products that provide solutions to numerous global health challenges, including staph (MRSA). PURE's proprietary high efficacy/low toxicity bioscience technologies, including its silver dihydrogen citrate-based antimicrobials, represent...

PURE Bioscience Board Appoints John J. Carbone, MD to Board of Directors

...ce PURE Bioscience develops and markets technology-based bioscience products that provide solutions to numerous global health challenges, including staph (MRSA). PURE's proprietary high efficacy/low toxicity bioscience technologies, including its silver dihydrogen citrate-based antimicrobials, represent...

PURE Bioscience and Ciba Strike New Contract for Natural Antimicrobial

... PURE Bioscience develops and markets technology-based bioscience products that provide solutions to numerous global health challenges, including staph (MRSA). PURE's proprietary high efficacy/low toxicity bioscience technologies, including its silver dihydrogen citrate-based antimicrobials, represent...

PURE Bioscience Reports Fourth Quarter and Year End Results

...nce PURE Bioscience develops and markets technology-based bioscience products that provide solutions to numerous global health challenges, including staph (MRSA). PURE's proprietary high efficacy/low toxicity bioscience technologies, including its silver dihydrogen citrate-based antimicrobials, represent...

PURE Bioscience to Announce Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2008 Results

...nce PURE Bioscience develops and markets technology-based bioscience products that provide solutions to numerous global health challenges, including staph (MRSA). PURE's proprietary high efficacy/low toxicity bioscience technologies, including its silver dihydrogen citrate-based antimicrobials, represent...

Cepheid Receives FDA Clearance for First Rapid On-Demand Molecular Diagnostic Test for MRSA and S. aureus

...ate, BIO5 Institute at The University of Arizona. "Our clinical trial data show that this new laboratory test makes it possible to accurately detect a staph infection before a patient is released, and it provides information to support treatment choices. In addition, the GeneXpert System supports informed ...

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