Staphylococcus Aureus

Antimicrobial Effectiveness Of Medical-Grade Honey in Topical Wound Care

According to a recent paper published in the European Journal of Clinical Microbiological Infectious Diseases, a certain kind of honey can be an effective agent in topical wound care, particularly where antibiotic resistance is an issue. The irony is that this most exciting ...More
July 22, 2009
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Researchers Map How Staph Infections Alter Immune System

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 ...More
July 14, 2009
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Looking for New Antibiotics

As the best drugs become increasingly resistant to superbugs, McMasterUniversity researchers have discovered a completely different way of looking for a new antibiotic.In a paper to be published published on May 29 in the journal Chemistry and Biology, with colleagues in ...More
May 28, 2009
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How Superbugs Control Their Lethal Weapons

A team of researchers at The University of Western Ontario, led by Joaquin Madrenas of the Robarts Research Institute, has discovered some processes that reduce the lethal effects of toxins from superbugs, allowing humans and microbes to co-evolve. This discovery may ...More
May 26, 2009
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New Technology Promising Against Resistant Staph Infections

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of YeshivaUniversity have combined their revolutionary new drug-delivery system with a powerful antimicrobial agent to treat potentially deadly drug-resistant staph infections in a mouse model. The study is published this ...More
April 30, 2009
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Breaking the Chain of Infection and Preventing Cross-Contamination

A plethora of studies in the medical literature has demonstrated that nearly everything in the healthcare setting – from surfaces, to healthcare workers’ hands, to medical equipment and everything in between — can serve as a reservoir and a vector for ...More
April 29, 2009
Posted in Articles, Environmental Hygiene, Hand Hygiene, PPE & Standard Precautions
Tufted Bacteria Cause Infection in Premature Babies

Bacteria that normally reside on the skin of healthy people can cause serious infections in premature babies. A group of researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now found an explanation for why a certain kind of staphylococcus can attach itself to the skin and quickly ...More
April 29, 2009
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Clinical Microbiology and Infection Prevention are Essential Partners

One crucial yet potentially underused partnership in the battle against healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs) is that between the infection preventionist and the clinical microbiology laboratory (CML) professional. Pfaller and Herwaldt (1997) point to the symbiotic ...More
March 30, 2009
Posted in Articles
Tea Tree Oil and Silver Together Make More Effective Antiseptics

In the fight against infected skin wounds, mixing tea tree oil and silver or putting them in liposomes, (small spheres made from natural lipids), greatly increases their antimicrobial activity and may minimize any side effects.Wan Li Low and colleagues from the University ...More
March 30, 2009
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New Combination Therapy May Protect Against Implant-Associated MRSA Infections

A new study suggests that combination therapy using the antibiotics linezolid and rifampin may effectively treat drug-resistant MRSA implant-associated infections. The researchers from Switzerland report their findings in the March 2009 issue of the journal Antimicrobial ...More
March 24, 2009
Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization