Superbugs

Emerging Infectious Diseases Pose Current and Future Challenges

Newly recognized disease-causing viruses, bacteria and other infections are continually emerging around the world, posing difficult challenges for patient diagnosis and treatment and for public health responses. A special symposium section of the September issue of the ...More
September 22, 2010
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Nearly 400 Medicines and Vaccines in Development to Fight Infectious Diseases

Critical challenges remain in the centuries-old battles against infectious diseases, particularly as bacteria and viruses mutate and as the threat of bioterrorism grows. Responding to this need, America’s biopharmaceutical research companies this year have 395 new medicines ...More
September 10, 2010
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Poster Details High-Risk Areas for Hospital Superbugs

EMLab P&K, a testing laboratory, in collaboration with strategic alliance partner Philders Group International Inc., a consulting firm for infectious diseases, announces it has created a professionally designed infection control poster, “Infection Control Risk ...More
August 26, 2010
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BioScience Laboratories Announces Testing Capabilities for NDM-1

BioScience Laboratories has obtained seven clinical isolates of Carbapenem-Resistant (CR) Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli. These organisms provide a strong model for predicting a product's efficacy against superbugs such as the New Delhi metallo-a-lactamase 1 ...More
August 25, 2010
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Infectious Disease Specialist Addresses Rise of the Superbugs

People all over the world are getting sick and dying of an incurable plague. Hospitals are inundated. And there is no cure in sight. It sounds like the plot to a far-fetched futuristic sci-fi movie, right? The bad news is it’s not, according to Brad Spellberg, MD, associate ...More
August 11, 2010
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Researchers Warn of Potential New Superbug

A study appearing in the Aug. 11 issue of Lancet Infectious Diseases indicates that a new gene, NDM-1, is creating resistance in bacteria to almost all known antibiotics, including carbapenems, and there are no new drugs in the pipeline to combat a potential new superbug. ...More
August 11, 2010
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Bees Could Help Beat Superbugs

Bees could have a key role to play in urgently needed new treatments to fight methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), according to research led at the University of Strathclyde.The scientists found that a substance known as beeglue or propolis, originating from ...More
June 28, 2010
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Clostridium difficile: The Newest Superbug Beats Out MRSA

Evolution of a SuperbugAccording to Becky A. Miller, MD, who presented study results at an oral session at the Fifth Decennial International Conference on Healthcare-Associated Infections 2010, hospital-onset, healthcare-associated Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) ...More
June 23, 2010
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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
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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
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