MRSA News Feed Informer http://feed.informer.com/images/fd.gif http://feed.informer.com/ http://app.feed.informer.com/digest3/XKMKGCQIE3.html Respective post owners and feed distributors http://feed.informer.com/ Should the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage status be used as a guide to treatment for skin and soft tissue infections?. A total of 378 skin and soft tissue infections in 346 patients were retrieved. Overall cure was achieved in 330... http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/past-mrsa-and-hospital-treatment-what-works-best.html MRSA Infection http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/past-mrsa-and-hospital-treatment-what-works-best.html? Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:16 GMT Unexpectedly high levels of MRSA found in retail pork products. It is possible that a link between antibiotic use on the farm and MRSA on meat products may be obscured by human contamination of meat with MRSA after slaughter, according... http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/mrsa-found-in-retail-pork-products-human-cause.html MRSA Infection http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/mrsa-found-in-retail-pork-products-human-cause.html? Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:03 GMT Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®, Online First™ - SpringerLink. The addition of vancomycin as a prophylactic antibiotic agent apparently did not reduce the rate of SSI compared to cefazolin alone. Use of vancomycin in addition to cefazolin appeared to reduce... http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/dual-antibiotics-prior-to-operations-to-comabt-mrsa.html MRSA Infection http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/dual-antibiotics-prior-to-operations-to-comabt-mrsa.html? Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:47 GMT Progress Made in Developing Community-Acquired MRSA Vaccine: Scientific American. Daum's hunch was right: the girl had a mutation that Holland had recently linked to a rare immunodeficiency called Job's syndrome. People with the syndrome have persistent, smouldering S. aureus infections,... http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/persistent-mrsa-why-some-people-are-more-vulnerable.html MRSA Infection http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/persistent-mrsa-why-some-people-are-more-vulnerable.html? Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:36 GMT Progress Made in Developing Community-Acquired MRSA Vaccine: Scientific American. A few days before Christmas, he and Brad Spellberg, a physician who conducts vaccine research at the University of California, Los Angeles, published an article calling for a vaccine that would... http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/progress-made-in-developing-community-acquired-mrsa-vaccine.html MRSA Infection http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/progress-made-in-developing-community-acquired-mrsa-vaccine.html? Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:32 GMT MRSA Found in Antibiotic-free Meat | The Scientist. New research published in PLoS ONE found that nearly 65 percent of grocery store pork labeled “antibiotic-free” harbored Staph, and some 6 percent carried MRSA itself. The label “antibiotic-free” is unregulated. How... http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/mrsa-found-in-antibiotic-free-meat.html MRSA Infection http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/mrsa-found-in-antibiotic-free-meat.html? Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:22 GMT Methicillin Resistance Reduces the Virulence of Healthcare-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus by Interfering With the agr Quorum Sensing System. In our study of one of the major healthcare-associated MRSA (HA-MRSA) clones, we show that expression of the gene responsible for conferring... http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/why-community-mrsa-will-dominate.html MRSA Infection http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/why-community-mrsa-will-dominate.html? Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:18 GMT MRSA: Risk Factors for Household Transmission. Investigators from Minnesota and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted a study to estimate the prevalence of, and risk factors for, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization among household contacts of children... http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/mrsa-risk-factors-for-household-transmission.html MRSA Infection http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/mrsa-risk-factors-for-household-transmission.html? Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:16 GMT U.K. Court Upholds $1.3 Million Damages Ruling Against 3M in MRSA Case - Bloomberg. A U.K. judge upheld a decision that 3M Co., the maker of Post-It Notes, should pay $1.3 million to investors after it decided not to market... http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/uk-court-upholds-13-million-damages-ruling-against-3m-in-mrsa-case.html MRSA Infection http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/uk-court-upholds-13-million-damages-ruling-against-3m-in-mrsa-case.html? Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:11 GMT New MRSA ‘superbug’ worries experts. “The community-acquired bacteria has evolved further, and is able to maintain a higher level of toxicity while also resisting treatment from antibiotics, making it a much larger problem…While we are constantly learning more about MRSA,... http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/usa300-getting-more-lethal.html MRSA Infection http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/usa300-getting-more-lethal.html? Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:07 GMT New MRSA ‘superbug’ worries experts. Dr Massey said there were 1,000 cases of PVL-positive community acquired MRSA in England in the last year, of which 200 were USA300 strains. He said, “These community-acquired strains seem to be good at affecting... http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/1000-usa300-cases-in-uk-last-year.html MRSA Infection http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/1000-usa300-cases-in-uk-last-year.html? Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:05 GMT Commercially distributed meat as a potential vehicle for community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. We examined the distribution of MRSAs in commercially distributed raw meat samples (n = 197) and diarrheal stool samples of outpatients (n = 1287) that were collected in... http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/commercially-distributed-meat-and-community-mrsa.html MRSA Infection http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/commercially-distributed-meat-and-community-mrsa.html? Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:56 GMT Optimizing Antibiotic Regimens to Counter Antibiotic Resistance | The Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy. Antibiotics on the shelf today are increasingly losing their potency against resistant microbes or “superbugs” like the potentially lethal methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.... http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/optimizing-antibiotic-regimens-to-counter-antibiotic-resistance.html MRSA Infection http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/02/optimizing-antibiotic-regimens-to-counter-antibiotic-resistance.html? Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:13 GMT Spread of the epidemic European fusidic acid-resistant impetigo clone (EEFIC) in general practice patients in the south of The Netherlands. Objectives We evaluated the susceptibility to fusidic acid, mupirocin and retapamulin of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from nasal and wound swabs.... http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/01/epidemic-impetigo-and-mrsa.html MRSA Infection http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/01/epidemic-impetigo-and-mrsa.html? Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:04 GMT Linezolid in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Nosocomial Pneumonia: A Randomized, Controlled Study. Background. Post hoc analyses of clinical trial data suggested that linezolid may be more effective than vancomycin for treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nosocomial pneumonia. This study prospectively assessed... http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/01/linezolid-better-than-vancomycin-for-mrsa.html MRSA Infection http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/01/linezolid-better-than-vancomycin-for-mrsa.html? Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:33 GMT Population Genomics in Bacteria: A Case Study of Staphylococcus aureus. We analyzed the genome-wide pattern of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in a sample with 12 strains of Staphylococcus aureus. Population structure of S. aureus seems to be complex, and the... http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/01/genetic-change-a-case-study-of-staphylococcus-aureus.html MRSA Infection http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/01/genetic-change-a-case-study-of-staphylococcus-aureus.html? Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:25 GMT Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Isolated From Pets Living in Households With MRSA-Infected Children. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is among the most important causes of human healthcare-associated infections. Various studies have described suspected interspecies transmission of MRSA between human patients, their... http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/01/methicillin-resistant-staphylococcus-aureus-mrsa-isolated-from-pets-living-in-households-with-mrsa-infected-children.html MRSA Infection http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/01/methicillin-resistant-staphylococcus-aureus-mrsa-isolated-from-pets-living-in-households-with-mrsa-infected-children.html? Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:23 GMT Severe Neutropenia Following a Prolonged Course of Vancomycin That Progressed to Agranulocytosis with Drug Reexposure. OBJECTIVE: To report a case of severe neutropenia after discontinuing prolonged treatment with vancomycin that progressed to agranulocytosis with vancomycin reexposure. CONCLUSIONS: This case demonstrates... http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/01/severe-neutropenia-and-long-term-vancomycin-treatment.html MRSA Infection http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/01/severe-neutropenia-and-long-term-vancomycin-treatment.html? Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:25 GMT How Staphylococcus aureus biofilms develop their characteristic structure. Our study describes a mechanism of biofilm structuring in molecular detail, and the general principle (i.e., quorum-sensing controlled expression of surfactants) seems to be conserved in several bacteria, despite the divergence of... http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/01/how-staphylococcus-aureus-biofilms-develop-their-characteristic-structure.html MRSA Infection http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/01/how-staphylococcus-aureus-biofilms-develop-their-characteristic-structure.html? Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:20 GMT Scottish MRSA rate at 'lowest levels since records began' | Nursing in Practice. MRSA and MSSA infections are at their lowest levels in Scotland since records began in 2005, official figures suggest. Statistics from Health Protection Scotland shows MRSA (meticillin-resistant... http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/01/scottish-mrsa-rate-at-lowest-levels-since-records-began.html MRSA Infection http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/2012/01/scottish-mrsa-rate-at-lowest-levels-since-records-began.html? Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:19 GMT