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Antibiotic Resistance

Pilot Study Reinforces Use of Portable Anteroom HEPA Filtration to Prevent Perioperative Transmission of Airborne Microorganisms

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amidst an increase in new tuberculosis cases, researchers have begun investigating the effectiveness of new operating room filtration systems designed to protect staff and patients. According to pilot study findings published in the May issue of the ...More
May 7, 2008
Posted in News
Scientists Discover How Some Bacteria Survive Antibiotics

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered how some bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment by turning on resistance mechanisms when exposed to the drugs. The findings, published in the April 24 issue of the journal Molecular Cell, could lead to ...More
May 1, 2008
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Research Findings Open New Front in Fight Against AIDS Virus

A research group supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has uncovered a new route for attacking the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that may offer a way to circumvent problems with drug resistance. In findings published today in the online edition of the ...More
April 30, 2008
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Humans May Lose Battle with Bacteria, Medicinal Chemist's Research Shows

Human beings are swarming with bacteria; even the average healthy adult plays host to about 100 trillion microscopic organisms. Infection takes place when the bacteria get out of hand. Now, a University of Kansas researcher has penned a history of the struggle between man ...More
April 28, 2008
Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization
Infectious Disease Physician to Present on Antibiotic Resistance Associated with Antibiotic Impregnated Devices at SHEA Meeting

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Today, Issam I. Raad, MD, an infectious disease physician at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, will participate in a plenary session focusing on the pros and cons of using antimicrobial impregnated intravascular devices at the Society ...More
April 8, 2008
Posted in News
ESBLs and Acinetobacter: The Other Important Threats

The prevalence of extended spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) is increasing throughout U.S. hospitals, warns Carlene Muto, MD, medical director of the Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. "Not only are ESBLs ...More
April 1, 2008
Posted in Articles
Microbe of the Month: ESBL-Producing Organisms

Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing organisms are an increasing challenge for healthcare practitioners fighting healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Klebsiella oxytoca are the most common ESBL-producing ...More
April 1, 2008
Posted in Articles
MRSA in Hospital Intensive Care Units … What's Growing Where?

Researchers are finding out which bugs grow in intensive care units to develop a novel sampling regime that would indicate the threat of MRSA and other superbugs in the environment. This news was announced at the Society for General Microbiology’s 162nd meeting being ...More
March 31, 2008
Posted in News
New Chemical Can Kill Latent Tuberculosis Bacteria

Success in the laboratory suggests that a new compound can point the way to preventing active tuberculosis in people infected with the latent form of the bacterium, says a team led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. A drug with such properties ...More
March 17, 2008
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Confronting the Challenge of Antimicrobial Resistance

Drug resistance is making many diseases increasingly difficult -- and sometimes impossible -- to treat, according to Anthony S. Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. "Extensively ...More
March 10, 2008
Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization