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 )‘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 )Gut Harbors antibiotic resistance
The millions of microbes that crowd the human intestinal tract are teeming with new antibiotic resistance genes that could jump to disease-causing pathogens, according to researchers from Harvard University. They found more than 90 undiscovered bacterial genes capable of conferring antibiotic resistance hiding in microbes harvested from two healthy adults. They report their findings in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )KPC The Other Potential Pandemic
KPC: The Other Potential Pandemic–And We’re Completely Ignoring It From Mike the Mad Biologist n the midst of the concern about TEH SWINEY FLOO!, very few people (other than the Mad Biologist), have been discussing the double whammy of influenza followed by bacterial infections. A couple of years ago, I first started describing reports of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Florida vs. the Superbug
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/essays/article989567.ece MRSA killed Alonzo Smith, an 18-year-old football player from Liberty High School in Kissimmee last September. Smith follows a long line of football players who have been sickened after infection with MRSA, a highly resistant superbug. In fact, the National Football League was so concerned about the spread of MRSA in locker rooms that [...]
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