NDM-1, Superbug Gene, Could Spread Worldwide, Doctors Warn
Huffington Post LONDON — People traveling to India for medical procedures have brought back to Britain a new gene that allows any bacteria to become a superbug, and scientists are warning this type of drug resistance could soon appear worldwide. Though already widespread in India, the new superbug gene is being increasingly spotted in Britain [...]
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 )Senator Robert Byrd dies after fighting persistent infections
Senator Robert Byrd passed away at 3 am this morning. He had been admitted to the hospital yet again after more than a year of fighting an infection/infections which originated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. “Byrd, who entered the Senate in 1959 and is the longest- serving member of the upper house in history, [...]
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 )Role of intensive care unit environment and health-care workers in transmission of ventilator-associated pneumonia
Noyal Mariya Joseph, Sujatha Sistla, Tarun Kumar Dutta, Ashok Shankar Badhe, Desdemona Rasitha, Subhash Chandra Parija Journal of Infection in Developing Countries Abstract Background: Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii have been reported to cause outbreaks of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in several studies. The high prevalence of these pathogens prompted us to study the different strains [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Hallucinations in Hospital Pose Risk to the Elderly
New York Times June 20, 2010 No one who knows Justin Kaplan would ever have expected this. A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian with a razor intellect, Mr. Kaplan, 84, became profoundly delirious while hospitalized for pneumonia last year. For hours in the hospital, he said, he imagined despotic aliens, and he struck a nurse and threatened [...]
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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Acinetobacter Threat
By Bryant Furlow at the Medical Muckraker As I reported today at epiNewswire, a once-rare hospital infection is quickly becoming a major public health challenge in health care and nursing home facilities. Antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter infections are deadlier and more readily spread than other hospital infections, contaminating health care workers’ hands and gloves up to four [...]
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