UCLA researchers awarded $9M contract for study identifiying antibiotic treatment for MRSA
... The study, to be led by co-principal investigators Dr. David A. Talan and Dr. Gregory J. Moran, both of Olive ViewUCLA Medical Center and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, will explor...MRSA in Sweden: A quarter of cases infected abroad
A quarter of all people with MRSA in Sweden between 2000 and 2003 were infected abroad. A study published today in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases reveals that the number of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in Sweden nearly doubled between 2000 and 2003. The study also shows that 25% of all cases came from abroad. This highlights the threat posed by in...Rhode Island Hospital study identifies high-risk patient populations for MRSA carriage
... "MRSA can be spread in the healthcare environment and community and can cause serious infections," said lead investigator Leonard Mermel, MD, medical director, department of epidemiology & infection control, Rhode Isla...MRSA surveillance, rapid screening, and hospital hygiene key to preventing future transmission
... S. aureus meticillin resistance was first reported in the early 1960s, but widespread resistance has only become a major public-health problem in recent decades. Hajo Grundmann (Projectleader of the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System) and colleagues outline the history and microbiological and genetic characteristics of MRSA; for example, the bacterium readily acquires res...Study finds MRSA most common cause of skin infections in patients presenting in nation's ER's
... UCLA researchers report in the Aug. 17 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine that MRSA is the most common cause of skin and soft-tissue infections among patients presenting in emergency rooms across the country. MRSA is resistant to the antibiotics used for years to treat these skin conditions, such as c...MRSA is a global health problem
MRSA (meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is the most commonly identified antibiotic-resistant pathogen in many parts of the world, including Europe, the Americas, north Africa, the middle east, and east Asia, state the authors of a Review published online today by The Lancet (Wednesday June 21, 2006). ...... MRSA rates have been increasing worldwide over the past decades write Hajo Grund...Scientists uncover genes for virulence in strain of community-acquired MRSA
Scientists have identified the genes responsible for the resistance and virulence of one of the most predominant strains of community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the US. The researchers publish their findings online today (Tuesday February 28, 2006) in The Lancet. ...... The strain, called USA300, was isolated in September 2000 and has been implicated in outbreak...New faster screening test for MRSA
A new screening technique for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) cuts by 75% the time taken to identify patients carrying MRSA and could be used to help prevent transmission of the bacteria in hospitals. A study published today in the journal Critical Care shows that a new molecular screening test for MRSA decreases the time between screening and notification of results from four...Sequence-based early warning system for the detection of MRSA outbreaks in hospitals
German researchers have proposed an automated DNA sequence-based early warning system to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) outbreaks in hospitals, which they say could replace traditional slower techniques.... ...Outbreaks are usually identified manually from laboratory test results and patients' charts, which is time consuming. Established outbreaks are tracked by molecu...Meeting MRSA targets largely down to chance, says expert
Chance makes it impossible to assess reliably whether hospitals are meeting government targets to reduce MRSA infections, argues a statistics expert in this week's BMJ....... The UK government has set a national target for reducing the rate of MRSA infection by 50% by 2008, but David Spiegelhalter, a senior scientist at the MRC Biostatistics Unit Cambridge, warns that setting these targets for in...MRSA is a global problemperspectives from around the world
MRSA (meticllin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is everybody's business, not only that of hospital epidemiologists and a few opinion leaders, conclude experts contributing to a global debate in the October issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases. ...... The debate brings together viewpoints from across the world as MRSA experts share the challenges that individual countries face in trying to con...Skin infections caused by MRSA are cured more often when treated with Pfizer's ZYVOX
New York, June 1, 2005 Pfizer's antibiotic ZYVOX (linezolid injection, tablets, and for oral suspension) is more effective than vancomycin for the treatment of complicated skin and soft tissue infections (cSSTIs) caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), according to the largest MRSA cSSTIs study to date published in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. Of the total study...University of Manchester launches new anti-MRSA product
Scientists at The University of Manchester, along with healthcare product manufacturer Brimaid, have unveiled a new product which aims to aid hospitals in the fight against MRSA. The BioKab is a bedside cabinet which has been specifically designed to reduce the spread and infection of harmful bacteria in hospital wards....... The cabinet is made from a polyethylene plastic impregnated with an ant...Discovery of a 'molecular switch' could lead to new ways of treating infection, including MRSA
The discovery of a 'molecular switch' could lead to new ways of treating infections such as MRSA, and inflammatory diseases like arthritis....... According to research published today in Nature, the team from Imperial College London and the University of California, San Diego, have identified an enzyme called IKK, which can act as a 'brake' on an immune cell pathway responsible for regulating the...This "re-equipping and re-emergence" of a clone that caused a pandemic 40-50 years ago could mean that community acquired MRSA will spread faster and be more widespread than previously expected, warns an international team of researchers who have been studying the bacteria.... ...First isolated in Australia and Canada in 1953, type 80/81 penicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria caused...