New antibiotics developed from frog skin
The fight against superbugs has taken a leap forward thanks to the discovery that powerful new antibiotics could come from frogs. Scientists have long known that the skin of frogs contains plenty of powerful germ-fighting substances because of the hostile environments they exist in. But the substances are also often poisonous to humans Now a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Invasive procedures, prolonged use of trach tubes increase risk of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter blood infections
By Bryant Furlow at Epinewswire A recent invasive procedure more than triples the risk of an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patient developing deadly multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter blood infections, report researchers at Yonsei University College of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea — prompting a recommendation that such procedures be avoided where possible among Acinetobacter-colonized patients. The study’s [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Researchers Discover Ease of Acinetobacter Transmission Via PPE, Unwashed Hands
Infection Control Today Items of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as gowns and gloves, as well as the unwashed hands of healthcare workers, are frequently contaminated with multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, which they say is more easily transmitted than previously thought. Daniel J. Morgan, MD, of the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the University [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Common sense and planning to beat superbugs
Acinetobacter baumannii at The Nation This superbug can live nearly anywhere; dry surfaces are just as comfortable a home as a kitchen sponge. It is a particular danger in hospitals because it often resists antibiotic treatment and it can quickly cause opportunistic infections in patients with weakened immune systems. And according to research by the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Iraq war superbug in Abu Dhabi hospitals
Mitya Underwood at The Nation Research by the United Arab Emirates University found that, in every hospital studied, Acinetobacter baumannii was present and resistant to antibiotics at a rate “very high by all international comparison”. The study found more than 95 per cent of isolated outbreak samples were resistant to antibiotics, compared with only six [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Drug-resistant bacteria is a major threat to patients
These organisms can cause life-threatening complications to patients. Al Ain: An outbreak of multidrug-resistant bacteria has been detected in Abu Dhabi hospitals that, according to microbiologists, can cause life-threatening complications to patients. One of the organisms that has emerged is Acinetobacter Baumannii, a major problem for hospitals worldwide. “[It] can cause life-threatening complications for hospital [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Acinetobacter sweeping through long-term care facilities, nursing homes
By Bryant Furlow at EpiNews June 11, 2010 — The cycling of elderly patients between nursing homes and hospitals has created a difficult to-control Acinetobacter reservoir in long-term care facilities, according to a newly-published, six year study ofmultidrug-resistant hospital infections among elderly Michigan residents. Acinetobacter infection rates among elderly patients climbed 25 percent between 2003 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Spanish Hospitals Unable to halt four year long Acinetobacter Outbreak
EpiNews There’s a troubling study by Spanish epidemiologists in this month’s issue of the journal Microbial Drug Resistance, illustrating the challenge posed by Acinetobacter once it contaminates a hospital. The authors report a Madrid hospital has been unable to eradicate an Acinetobacter infection outbreak that began in 2006. The clone in question is resistant to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )‘Urgent’ need to develop new antibiotics against Acinetobacter threat
Acinetobacter Difficult to Control at Medical Muckraker Australian researchers are calling for the development of entirely new types of antibiotics to counter Acinetobacter bacterial infections. “Acinetobacter have risen from relative obscurity to be among the most important sources of hospital-acquired infections,” the team writes in the June issue of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. “The [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Environmental Contamination in Healthcare Settings
When the Patient Is Discharged: Terminal Disinfection of Hospital Rooms John Boyce, MD at MedScape Oncology Transmission of healthcare-associated pathogens to patients occurs most frequently via the transiently contaminated hands of healthcare workers. For many years, experts believed that contaminated environmental surfaces in hospitals did not play a significant role in transmission of pathogens to [...]
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