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Hospital superbugs that can break down antibiotics are so widespread throughout Europe that doctors increasingly have to use the few remaining drugs that they reserve for emergencies. Now these hospital superbug strains have spread to nursing homes and into the community in Ireland, raising fears of wider antibiotic resistance, scientists heard today (Wednesday 28 November [...]

Although hospital superbugs like MRSA – methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus – are now a widespread and recognised problem, new MRSA strains that have emerged and are spreading amongst the wider public in the USA may pose a bigger threat, according to Exeter researchers speaking today (Wednesday 28 November 2007) at the Federation of Infection Societies [...]

eFoodSafety.com Inc. (OTCBB: EFSF) announced that it has conducted tests, which were successful, using a microbial inhibition study to determine if Citroxin would eradicate the MRSA bacteria (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus or antibiotic resistant staphylococcus aureus). The microbial inhibition study is commonly used to determine antimicrobial effectiveness of antibiotics against known pathogens in a clinical [...]

The Healthcare Commission has found that staff at Stoke Mandeville Hospital have made substantial progress to prevent and manage healthcare-associated infections. A year after an official investigation detailed serious failings at Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust, inspectors say that infection control is now a top priority and that the trust meets all 11 requirements of the [...]