Showing posts with label MRSA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MRSA. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

mBio: MRSA – Making A House A Biome

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MRSA - Photo Credit CDC   # 9804   From the Open Access journal mBio this morning, a report that suggests that MRSA can hang aro...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

NEJM: Targeted vs Universal Decolonization For ICU Patients

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  UPDATED :    Maryn Mckenna – who is Flublogia’s resident expert in all things antimicrobial – has just posted a blog post on this im...
Friday, March 01, 2013

Revisiting The Seasonality Of MRSA

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  Credit CDC PHIL   # 6976     Just shy of two years ago, in MRSA: It’s Got Seasonality , we looked at a PLoS One study that f...
Monday, January 28, 2013

HPA: Unusual Number Of PVL Pneumonia Cases In the UK

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Credit CDC   # 6892   In an article called Warning over killer pneumonia linked to flu , Rebecca Smith , Medical Editor for The Te...
Friday, December 28, 2012

Study: Weighing The Risks Of MRSA Colonization

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MRSA - Photo Credit CDC # 6807   The CDC tells us, in their Definition of MRSA page, that:   While 25% to 30% of people...
Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Study: MRSA In Waste Water Treatment Plants

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  Photo Credit USGS – Wastewater: The Primary Treatment Process 1. Screening 2. Pumping 3. Aerating 4. Removing sludge 5. Removing S...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

The Flight Of The Bacterial Intruder

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Credit CDC PHIL     # 6625   HCAIs ( Health care associated Infections ) or HAIs ( Hospital acquired infections ) constitute ...
Friday, March 09, 2012

McKenna On MRSA Pneumonia Cluster In Maryland

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    Clumps of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Magnified 2390x . – Credit CDC PHIL # 6211   Author, journalist,...
Thursday, March 08, 2012

CIDRAP: MRSA Pneumonia Suspected In Calvert County Flu Cluster

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  Clumps of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus – Credit CDC PHIL # 6210     Although we haven’t seen any official up...
Wednesday, February 01, 2012

McKenna: Man Vs. MRSA

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    # 6115   Among the many fascinating topics Maryn McKenna covered in her book Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA was the pos...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

The Passing Parade Of 2011 – Pt. 2

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      # 6036   Over the past year I’ve posted more than 900 blogs, dozens of which looked at some of the latest research into ...