News tagged with common nosocomial infections
Keyboards and mice can harbor hospital infections
Although hospital computer equipment can act as a reservoir for pathogenic organisms, including MRSA, researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases found that bacterial contamination rates from c ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Drug-resistant urinary tract infections spreading worldwide
A sudden worldwide increase in an antibiotic-resistant bacterium is cause for concern, according to a review in f1000 Medicine Reports.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 28, 2009 |
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New guidelines for treating complicated skin and soft tissue infections
New evidence-based recommendations developed by the Surgical Infection Society to guide physicians in the diagnosis and management of complicated skin and soft tissue infections have been published in Surgical Infections.
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Researchers examine 'invading' bacteria in DNA
Call it advanced warfare on the most elemental of levels.
Jun 02, 2009 |
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New family of antibacterial agents uncovered
As bacteria resistant to commonly used antibiotics continue to increase in number, scientists keep searching for new sources of drugs. In this week's JBC, one potential new bactericide has been found in the tiny freshwater animal ...
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Jan 15, 2009 |
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Antibiotic use increases at academic medical centers
Antibacterial drug use appears to have increased at academic medical centers between 2002 and 2006, driven primarily by greater use of broad-spectrum agents and the antibiotic vancomycin, according to a report in the Nov. ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 10, 2008 |
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Researchers identify biofilms that cause infections
Understanding the way bacterial cells "talk" to each other could lead to more effective methods for fighting the often persistent and serious infections caused by the biofilms they form, says a Texas A&M University professor ...
Jun 11, 2008 |
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Certain type of colitis now more common, severe among hospitalized patients
The rate of cases of colitis (colon inflammation) caused by the bacteria Clostridium difficile more than doubled among patients hospitalized in the United States between 1993 and 2003, and the illness was more severe and ...
Jul 16, 2007 |
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