Recent data showed that Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa — both of which landed the top spots on WHO’s list of “priority pathogens” in critical need of new therapies — were significantly more prevalent among patients hospitalized with [...]
'Superbug' outbreak raises questions about medical scope By ALICIA CHANG Feb. 19, 2015 11:08 PM EST Two people have died and five more have been infected, supposedly due to a carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE, after [...]
The Washington Post just published a serious and scary opinion piece about the growing thread of anti-biotic resistant bacteria, and the increasing severity in both infections and potential harm. ‘Nightmare’ bacteria are real, and the [...]
"Health officials are watching in horror as bacteria become resistant to powerful carbapenem antibiotics — one of the last drugs on the shelf." Via: Nature.com 24 July 2013 Nature, the International Weekly Journal of Science, [...]
Via Wired Magazine BY MARYN MCKENNA 07.25.13 Cast your minds back a few months ago, to when the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced, “We have a very serious problem” [...]
By Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily Tue, Mar 05 2013 at 3:00 PM, via Mother Nature Network During the first six months of 2012, nearly 200 U.S. hospitals and long-term acute care facilities treated at least one [...]
Story by: by Karen Blum, Pharmacy Practice News Hospital pharmacists face several challenges in helping manage antibiotic-resistant, gram-negative superbugs that produce carbapenemases. One of the most worrisome is carba- penemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC). A report in the March [...]
One-third of respondents to CBC survey say patient room, bathroom not clean This story from the CBC recounts "3,500 submissions to an online survey about patient experiences done by the fifth estate as part of Rate [...]
CRE is a hot topic these days, with a steady stream of both science-based publications and mainstream news agencies reporting on the superbug and the threat it poses. Biocidium has [...]
CNBC published a news item on Thursday April 4, expressing the challenge that superbugs, MRSA and CRE in particular, pose to our health care system. Dr. Cesar Arias, an associate professor of infectious diseases at the [...]
