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FDA Issues Draft Guidance on the Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobials in Food-Producing Animals

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued draft guidance intended to help reduce the development of resistance to medically important antimicrobial drugs used in food-producing animals.Today’s draft guidance outlines the FDA’s current thinking on ...More

June 28, 2010

Posted in News, Guidelines & Regulations, Antimicrobials & Vaccinations

Probiotic Therapy Cuts Risk of VAP in Half for Some in ICU

Daily use of probiotics reduced ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in critically ill patients by almost half, according to new research from Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Neb. The study was published on the American Thoracic Society's Web site ahead ...More

June 17, 2010

Posted in News, Antimicrobials & Vaccinations

Understanding Robustness in Organisms is a Potential Weapon Against Infectious Diseases

"Robust" is an adjective appreciatively applied to certain vintage wines, but when describing viruses and pathogens, robustness is a property that may be much less desirable. It evokes drug-resistant microbes and other superbugs that can wreak havoc as researchers struggle ...More

June 16, 2010

Posted in News, Antimicrobials & Vaccinations

Texas Tech Enters License Agreement for Technology That Combats Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

Officials at Texas Tech University System’s Office of Technology Commercialization announce the signing of an exclusive worldwide license agreement for a chemical additive called an aptamer that makes certain existing antibiotics viable against antibiotic-resistant ...More

June 11, 2010

Posted in News, Antimicrobials & Vaccinations

Superbug's CPU Revealed

McMaster University researchers have discovered a central controller or processing unit (CPU) of a superbug's weaponry.An article on the breakthrough appears in the high-impact journal Science today.The team from the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease ...More

June 4, 2010

Posted in News, Research & Studies, Surveillance & Epidemiology, Antimicrobials & Vaccinations

Grass Shows Promise for Removing Antibiotics from Water

By Marcia GoodrichWhat goes in must come out, and when animals are given antibiotics, they can find their way into the water supply. Now, a Michigan Tech senior has identified one way to sop them up.Antibiotics, like many pharmaceuticals, pass through the digestive tract ...More

June 1, 2010

Posted in News, Antimicrobials & Vaccinations

Antibacterial Silver Nanoparticles are a Blast

Writing in the International Journal of Nanoparticles, Rani Pattabi and colleagues at Mangalore University, explain how blasting silver nitrate solution with an electron beam can generate nanoparticles that are more effective at killing all kinds of bacteria, including ...More

May 24, 2010

Posted in News, Antimicrobials & Vaccinations

Antibiotic Use and Environmental Exposure are Key Factors Affecting Antibiotic-Resistant E. coli Carriage

Antimicrobial resistance has emerged as a global health problem and is a major impediment in managing childhood infectious diseases. Direct and indirect exposure of young children to antibiotics through medical and agricultural usage can increase their risk for ...More

May 5, 2010

Posted in News, Antimicrobials & Vaccinations

BioMérieux’s 2010 Odyssey Hits the Road in the Battle Against Superbugs

BioMérieux, a leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, begins its sixth tour across the United States and Canada to provide industry professionals with innovative training in advanced diagnostics solutions that can improve public health in the fight against ...More

April 26, 2010

Posted in News, Research & Studies, Surveillance & Epidemiology, Antimicrobials & Vaccinations

Putting Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance into Reverse

The use of antibiotics to treat bacterial infections causes a continual and vicious cycle in which antibiotic treatment leads to the emergence and spread of resistant strains, forcing the use of additional drugs leading to further multi-drug resistance.But what if it ...More

April 26, 2010

Posted in News, Antimicrobials & Vaccinations

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