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MRSA |
Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus |
Electron micrograph of MRSA Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a specific strain of the Staphylococcus aureus bacterium that has developed antibiotic resistance to all penicillins, including methicillin and other narrow-spectrum β-lactamase-resistant penicillin antibiotics.[1] MRSA was first discovered in the UK in 1961 and is now widespread, particularly in the hospital setting where it is commonly termed a superbug. MRSA may also be known as oxacillin-resistant St ...
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- Garlic beats hospital superbug: MRSA (BBC News)
- Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
MRSA News Headlines
- No Reliable Risk Factors Found For CA-MRSA
MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 10 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
- Anti-MRSA silver pyjamas trialled
BBC - Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:17 EST
- No special risk factors for CA-MRSA
The Earth Times - Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:08 EST
- New Hospital Gowns To Combat MRSA
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 11 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
- No Reliable Risk Factors Found For Antibiotic-Resistant Staph Infections
ScienceDaily - Sat, 10 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
- Hospital bug deaths on the rise
BBC - Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:59 EST
- Beauty Product Oil Can Lead To Antibiotic Resistance
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 18 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
- MRSA target 'likely to be missed'
BBC - Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:44 EST
- New Antibacterials Being Developed To Tackle MRSA Superbug
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:00 EST
- Novel Approaches To Tackling Obesity, Cancer And MRSA
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:00 EST
- Fears over deadly hospital bugs
BBC - Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:20 EST
- UK Still Has Long Way To Go In War On Killer Hospital Bugs
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:00 EST
- Toxin present in CA-MRSA
The Earth Times - Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:17 EST
- MRSA - Advanced Ozone Technology To Be Trialled In Hospitals
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 03 Jan 2007 08:00 EST
- MRSA Licked By Pioneering Paint
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:00 EST
- MRSA strain kills two in hospital
BBC - Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:23 EST
- MRSA victim was nurse at hospital
BBC - Tue, 19 Dec 2006 07:47 EST
- Outbreak Of PVL-positive Community-associated MRSA, UK
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:00 EST
- Superbug Warning: New Report Warns MRSA Is Reaching Epidemic Levels In European Hospitals
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:00 EST
- Tough New Superbug Known To Athletes Spreading Openly Across US And Now Canada
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:00 EST
- MRSA superbug claims may surge
BBC - Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:53 EST
- New strain of MRSA causes 2 deaths in Britain
The Earth Times - Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:37 EST
- Flat keyboard 'could reduce MRSA'
BBC - Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:06 EST
- MRSA Toxin Acquitted: Study Clears Suspected Key To Severe Bacterial Illness
MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 11 Nov 2006 02:00 EST
- MRSA Toxin Acquitted: Study Clears Suspected Key To Severe Bacterial Illness
ScienceDaily - Tue, 07 Nov 2006 04:00 EST
- ChloraPrep® For MRSA And Other Bacterial Infections Launched In UK
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 03 Nov 2006 08:00 EST
- MRSA Toxin Acquitted: Study Clears Suspected Key to Severe Bacterial Illness
National Institutes of Health - Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:05 EST
- MRSA Infections Can Be Flesh Eaters
WebMD - Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:56 EST
- Hopes for superbug vaccine
BBC - Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:11 EST
- MRSA Vaccine Shows Promise In Mouse Study
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:00 EST
- Pennsylvania Medical Society Delegates Attending Annual Meeting Will Tackle MRSA As Part Of International Infection Prevention Week
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:00 EST
- MRSA Infections Can Be Flesh Eaters
MedicineNet - Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:00 EST
- MRSA Vaccine Shows Promise In Mouse Study
ScienceDaily - Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:00 EST
- Investigational Antibiotic Ceftobiprole Shows Promise Against Potentially Life-Threatening MRSA Infections
MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 30 Sep 2006 07:00 EST
- Drug-Resistant Staph a Growing Concern
WebMD - Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:20 EST
- Resistant Bacteria Increasing Source Of Muscle Infection
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:00 EST
- Surveillance, Rapid Screening, And Hospital Hygiene Key To Preventing Future Transmission Of MRSA
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 04 Sep 2006 02:00 EST
- MRSA, a new scourge that is ready to strike
The Earth Times - Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:58 EST
- Funding To Tackle Hospital Superbugs
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 14 Sep 2006 03:00 EST
- MRSA Most Common Cause Of Skin Infections In Patients Presenting In ERs
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:00 EST
- MRSA Most Common Cause Of Skin Infections In Nation's Emergency Rooms
ScienceDaily - Sun, 20 Aug 2006 03:00 EST
- Study Finds MRSA Most Common Cause Of Skin Infections In Patients Presenting In Nation's ER's
MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 19 Aug 2006 01:00 EST
- Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria Responsible For Increase In Muscle Infections, Study Shows
MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 09 Sep 2006 07:00 EST
- Staph Superbug Most Common Cause Of US Skin Infections
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:00 EST
- Drug-Resistant Staph May Get Nastier
WebMD - Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:53 EST
- MRSA Breakthrough - Coventry University Tenant Company's Potent Paper Towel Could Beat Bug, UK
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 02 Aug 2006 06:00 EST
- A Threat of Microscopic Proportions
Washington Post - Tue, 15 Aug 2006 04:00 EST
- New Antibiotic In Fight Against "superbugs"
MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 22 Jul 2006 06:00 EST
- Tygacil - Much Needed New Antibiotic In Fight Against 'superbugs' Now Available In The UK
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:00 EST
- Replidyne Commences Clinical Trials For REP8839
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:00 EST
- Up to 53 million people carry MRSA, research says
Reuters - Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:21 EST
- MRSA Is A Global Health Problem
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 23 Jun 2006 04:00 EST
- MRSA superbug linked to illegal tattoos
The Earth Times - Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:02 EST
- Potent antibiotic to target MRSA
BBC - Thu, 18 May 2006 08:35 EST
- AdvanDx Launches New Tools For Detecting Antibiotic Resistance And Virulence Markers In The Highly Aggressive, Community-Acquired MRSA 'Superbug'
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 13 Jun 2006 06:00 EST
- Super Antibiotic For Hospital Superbug MRSA
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 18 May 2006 02:00 EST
- Ceragenix Compound Demonstrates Activity Against MRSA Biofilm
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 09 May 2006 06:00 EST
- New antibiotic that works against drug resistant microbes found
The Earth Times - Thu, 18 May 2006 06:02 EST
- New antibiotic active against resistant bugs
Reuters - Wed, 17 May 2006 04:23 EST
- Single Cell Amoeba Increases MRSA Numbers 1000-fold
ScienceDaily - Fri, 31 Mar 2006 03:00 EST
- Research Conference That Will Facilitate Development Of New Treatments For MRSA, 11 - 12 April, UK
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 04 Apr 2006 07:00 EST
- Type Of Amoeba Acts As An Incubator For MRSA Bacteria
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 02 Apr 2006 11:00 EST
- Making Drugs From Bugs To Fight Super-bugs Such As MRSA
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:00 EST
- Boost for 'superbug' drug
BBC - Thu, 30 Mar 2006 03:27 EST
- MRSA Use Amoeba To Spread, New Research Shows
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:00 EST
- Deaths Linked To MRSA Rose Significantly In England And Wales
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 23 Feb 2006 02:00 EST
- MRSA Use Amoeba To Spread, Sidestepping Hospital Protection Measures, New Research Shows
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 01 Mar 2006 03:00 EST
- MRSA Use Amoeba To Spread, New Research Shows
ScienceDaily - Tue, 28 Feb 2006 03:00 EST
- UK MRSA deaths up by 22%
BBC - Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:08 EST
- MRSA In Sweden: A Quarter Of Cases Infected Abroad
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 22 Feb 2006 02:00 EST
- Doctor ties ''to go in MRSA fight''
BBC - Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:13 EST
- MRSA superbug deaths up 22 pct in England & Wales
Reuters - Thu, 23 Feb 2006 02:04 EST
- Genes For Virulence In Strain Of Community-acquired MRSA Uncovered By Scientists
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:00 EST
- Privacy Curtains Proven Source Of MRSA Contamination
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:00 EST
- Study Indicates Dramatic Rise In Antibiotic-resistant Community-acquired Staph Infections
ScienceDaily - Tue, 07 Mar 2006 03:00 EST
- Study Indicates Dramatic Rise In Antibiotic-resistant Community-acquired Staph Infections
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 09 Mar 2006 01:00 EST
- Sequence-based Early Warning System For The Detection Of MRSA Outbreaks In Hospitals
ScienceDaily - Wed, 25 Jan 2006 03:00 EST
- Scientists in move over MRSA
BBC - Thu, 05 Jan 2006 06:16 EST
- More People Are ''Carriers'' of Drug-Resistant Staph Bacteria
ABC News - Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:02 EST
- Two million Americans harbor MRSA ''superbug'': CDC
Reuters - Tue, 03 Jan 2006 06:21 EST
- Drug-Resistant Bacteria Patterns In Intensive Care Units Changing Nationally, USA
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 08 Jan 2006 08:00 EST
- Tiny biosensor to detect cancer
BBC - Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:21 EST
- MRSA is everybody''s business, not only that of epidemiologists and politicians, the Lancet
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 22 Sep 2005 07:00 EST
- MRSA cases concern health professionals in US Gulf Coast
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 25 Sep 2005 03:00 EST
- A quarter of hospital MRSA bacteraemia occurs in new arrivals
MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 10 Sep 2005 01:00 EST
- MRSA ''brought back'' into hospital
BBC - Thu, 08 Sep 2005 11:36 EST
- Using diamonds to help make low-friction medical implants - may help reduce infections due to superbugs such as MRSA
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:00 EST
- E-nose to ''sniff out'' superbugs
BBC - Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:35 EST
- New MRSA Bacteria Killer Registered by EPA
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 04 Sep 2005 09:00 EST
- Hi-tech coating to boost implants
BBC - Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:59 EST
- MRSA risk doubled in critically ill patients with glucose in their airways
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:00 EST
- Baby''s MRSA death in doubt
BBC - Mon, 01 Aug 2005 05:56 EST
- OAP is awarded MRSA damages
BBC - Thu, 21 Jul 2005 10:03 EST
- ''Layered apron'' may cut MRSA
BBC - Mon, 15 Aug 2005 01:17 EST
- Chemical ''protects MRSA bacteria''
BBC - Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:55 EST
- Topical Silver An Effective Defense Against MRSA Threat
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 14 Jul 2005 03:00 EST
- Student designs home screening kit for MRSA super bug
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 17 Jun 2005 07:00 EST
- New natural extract for treating MRSA
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 06 Jun 2005 05:00 EST
- Do bibles spread the superbug MRSA?
MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 04 Jun 2005 03:00 EST
- Skin infections caused by MRSA cured more often when treated with Zyvox®
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 01 Jun 2005 06:00 EST
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