The new study looked at just a subset of about 448 hospital patients with antibiotic resistant MRSA strains.
New Scientist reports on an interesting new player in the fight against the antibiotic resistant MRSA copper.
Japanese researchers have published the completed genomes of two antibiotic resistant strains of one of the world's most dangerous bacteria.
The rapid reproduction of bacteria means there is always a chance that a population of microbes will develop which is antibiotic resistant.
Two closely-related strains of Clostridium difficile became antibiotic resistant and were able to rapidly spread to hospitals around the world, a study says.
One of the more fascinating ways that medical researchers are looking in to fighting antibiotic resistant bacteria is through the use of Manuka honey.
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Doing this on a large scale, involving 151 samples from infections in 19 countries, allowed researchers to build up a picture of the spread of the antibiotic resistant strains.
The NIAID has a considerable research program dedicated to fighting antibiotic resistant bacteria and the agency awards grants to deserving companies that focus on the identification of new antimicrobials to fight threatening superbugs.
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The urgency of antibiotic development is enhanced by the emergence of new and deadly bacteria strains, usually called CRE, a term that includes bacteria like some strains of KPC or NDM that are antibiotic resistant.
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Last year, some research was published evidencing some effectiveness against MRSA. Now a team from the Cardiff School of Health Sciences has demonstrated the effectiveness of this honey against Streptococcus pyogenes, an antibiotic resistant bacteria that often infects wounds and can prevent skin grafts from forming.
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Each year, tens of thousands of people die because they are infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria infect 100, 000 patients a year, and they are notoriously hard to fight.
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This will help reduce the transmission of antibiotic-resistant bacteria from colonised wounds to susceptible patients.
Being less reliant on antimicrobial drugs might also help minimise the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, she added.
Of the chicken tested, 53% was tainted with an antibiotic-resistant form of E.coli, the report said.
This is used to detect antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which are a growing problem for those fighting the disease.
Until we do, the routine use of antibiotics will continue to breed antibiotic-resistant bacteria that threaten human health.
Diseases such as antibiotic-resistant hospital infections and genital herpes have become hot targets.
It's using bacteria-hating (and thankfully harmless) viruses as biosensors to quickly identify superbugs, or antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can sometimes prove fatal.
In addition, the Environmental Working Group last week published an analysis of existing data on antibiotic-resistant bacteria contained in meat sold in supermarkets.
What drives her down into the darkness is her conviction that caves may contain our last defense against a dire health threat: antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
The continued use of growth promoters - low-dose antibiotics placed in livestock feed - risks the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria which could threaten human health.
More than half of all chicken sampled carried antibiotic-resistant E. coli.
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Such drugs have side-effects, however: not only do they lead to antibiotic-resistant bacteria, but some, such as metronidazole, can be dangerous in their own right.
Researchers also detected antibiotic-resistant microbes and E.coli in the soda samples.
By testing out various combinations of amino acids, Dr Ghadiri found several octets that were particularly effective against the antibiotic-resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus, a common pathogen.
In the 10-year time period covered by the Global Risks report, it is far from unrealistic to project a significant spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria with high mortality rates.
Then the late 1990s saw an increase in antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Everybody there remembers SARS and avian flu acutely Last week, the World Health Organization issued an alert for a bacterial threat, NDM-1, that was causing antibiotic-resistant infections in South Asia.
Our overuse of antibiotics has helped foster more numerous and stronger antibiotic-resistant microbes, to the point that we're running out of "last line" drugs to fight even the most resistant bacteria.
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