Scientists are warning about a new strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) that can cause a deadly form of pneumonia in people with the flu. Death rates may be higher than 50 percent. The new form of the antibiotic resistant superbug is called community-acquired MRSA (CA-...
The study, which was published inInfection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, used Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a difficult to treat pathogen that can be deadly for people with weak or underdeveloped immune systems, as its subject. "We wanted to focus on an organism that is ...
Heartworms are a deadly disease in both dogs and cats, but can be prevented with medication and mosquito control. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Healthy dogs and cats could be passing on multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs; bacteria that resist treatment with more than one antibiotic) to t...
They focused on the most common superbugs in hospital patients—methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), 3rd generation cephalosporin-resistant Enterobacterales (3GCRE) and carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE), which are resistant to multiple a...
UP TO 5,000 people die every year as a result of deadly hospital-acquired infections and a further 15,000 deaths are linked to infections - perhaps the most virulent is the potentially lethal MRSA 'superbug', which is resistant to even the most powerful antibiotics.When Jim Paton, 69, w...
even deadly, threat. An unchecked spread of the bacteria—both the antibiotic-susceptible and antibiotic-resistant (such as methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus, or MRSA) strains—can lead to severe complications, including bacteremia or sepsis (blood infections), pneumonia, endocarditis (heart valv...
In addition, copper-impregnated wound dressings were tested in an independent laboratory in the UK and revealed that the reduction of several bacteria strains, including MRSA, compared well to the traditional silver (Ag) adhesive dressings [50]. It is now well established that, whilst stainless ...