Overseas Travel Spreads Multi Drug Resistant Disease
EpiNews Researchers have long suspected that foreign travel hastens the spread of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) enzyme-producing enterobacteria — an increasingly important drug-resistant family of bacteria that can cause life-threatening gut and blood infections. ESBL enzymes such as CTX-M afford bacteria resistance to several antibiotics, complicating treatment. Now, a Swedish study has identified international travel as [...]
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 )The Acinetobacter Threat at EpiNews
Think MRSA is scary? Since the mid-2000s, an environmentally persistent, increasingly antibiotic-resistant infection has spread through-out western Europe and the U.S. By Bryant Furlow at EpiNews The arrival of extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter at U.S. hospitals caught public health officials off guard. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, these infections were increasingly rare, with declining infection rates. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Welcome Medical Muckraker
The Medical Muckracker is a new blog by Award Winning Medical and Science Writer Bryant Furlow. He started this new blog to expose wrongs and highlight under-reported public health stories that affect peoples’ lives but have been neglected by the mainstream media. Bryants Evidence Based Medical Reporting will be be invaluable to all who have [...]
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