MRSA Notes http://www.mrsanotes.com Learn about the treatment, spread and prevention of MRSA and other antibiotic resistant bacterial infections. Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:09:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 MRSA on the Rise: Infections Have Doubled in 5 Years http://www.mrsanotes.com/mrsa-on-the-rise-infections-have-doubled-in-5-years-2/ http://www.mrsanotes.com/mrsa-on-the-rise-infections-have-doubled-in-5-years-2/#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:09:44 +0000 Christina Jones http://www.mrsanotes.com/?p=966 Continue reading →]]>
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has rapidly become the bacteria of the decade. MRSA infections now respond only to very advanced antibiotics that were never meant to be a first-line defense. Usually, the drugs have to be delivered …
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]]> http://www.mrsanotes.com/mrsa-on-the-rise-infections-have-doubled-in-5-years-2/feed/ 0 MRSA – Rapid Whole-Genone Sequencing Impacts On Infection Control http://www.mrsanotes.com/mrsa-rapid-whole-genone-sequencing-impacts-on-infection-control-2/ http://www.mrsanotes.com/mrsa-rapid-whole-genone-sequencing-impacts-on-infection-control-2/#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:09:42 +0000 Christina Jones http://www.mrsanotes.com/?p=965 Continue reading →]]> Researchers have discovered that whole genome sequencing can impact infection control and patient management because of the clinical relevant data that it provides on bacterial transmission. In collaboration with Illumina researchers, scientists from …
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]]> http://www.mrsanotes.com/mrsa-rapid-whole-genone-sequencing-impacts-on-infection-control-2/feed/ 0 MRSA infection 2 http://www.mrsanotes.com/mrsa-infection-2/ http://www.mrsanotes.com/mrsa-infection-2/#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:09:40 +0000 Christina http://www.mrsanotes.com/?p=961 Continue reading →]]> So MRSA is one of the most infectious? diseases on the planet. Its also resistant to most treatments. If you think you have it DO NOT do what they did. Go to a hospital so you don’t spread it or DIE OF SEPTIC SHOCK

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Jack D. Douglas writes: This is a good study of the soaring rate of dangerous MRSA infection from hospital stays by academic hospital insiders who used their inside knowledge of the U. of Chicago hospital and three others to correct for the massive 30 …
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Michael Daly, a pathology professor at Uniformed University of the Health Sciences, led a team that has created a vaccine for MRSA, a bacteria that can cause infections that are resistant to antibiotics. Courtesy of Michael Daly. YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan …
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Hospital admissions for any MRSA infection went from about 21 out of every 1000 hospitalized patients in 2003 to about 42 out of every 1000 in 2008, or roughly 1 in 20 inpatients, according to a study in the August issue of Infection Control and …
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]]> http://www.mrsanotes.com/academic-hospitals-see-more-mrsa-infections/feed/ 0 MRSA Skin Infections Up, Linked to Furunculosis http://www.mrsanotes.com/mrsa-skin-infections-up-linked-to-furunculosis/ http://www.mrsanotes.com/mrsa-skin-infections-up-linked-to-furunculosis/#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:09:30 +0000 Maureen http://www.mrsanotes.com/?p=952 Continue reading →]]> The incidence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the United States is increasing and is associated with follicular infection, most commonly folliculitis followed by furunculosis, according to a review published …
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According to materials released July 26, 2012 by the University of Chicago Press Journals the number of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections doubled in academic medical centers from 2003 to 2008. The study scheduled for release …
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]]> http://www.mrsanotes.com/mrsa-cases-double-in-five-years-while-natural-solution-is-overlooked/feed/ 0 Exposure to magnetic fields in womb raises child’s risk of obesity; MRSA rates … http://www.mrsanotes.com/exposure-to-magnetic-fields-in-womb-raises-childs-risk-of-obesity-mrsa-rates/ http://www.mrsanotes.com/exposure-to-magnetic-fields-in-womb-raises-childs-risk-of-obesity-mrsa-rates/#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:09:25 +0000 Christina Jones http://www.mrsanotes.com/?p=950 Continue reading →]]> News For July 27, 2012. Exposure to magnetic fields in womb raises child's risk of obesity; MRSA rates double in US academic hospitals; UK medical schools barely teaching physical activity · Childhood obesity linked to magnetic field exposure in utero …
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