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 )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 )Pentagon to Troop-Killing Superbugs: Resistance Is Futile
Keith Drummond at the Danger Room A super-germ that’s become a lethal threat to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan may have met its match in a novel technique that kills entire bacterial colonies within hours. Today’s troops have a nine in 10 chance of surviving their battle injuries. But wounds and amputation sites leave them [...]
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