sharon sanders
Editor-in-Chief & President
Super Germ Emerging as Real Concern for Healthcare Professionals
NATION - 3/5/2010
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="610"><tbody><tr><td><style> .show-ul p{ width:610px; } .show-ul div{ width:610px; } .show-ul ul{ list-style-type:disc; padding-left:25px; } .show-ul ul ul{ list-style-type:circle; } blockquote.story{ padding-left:15px; margin-left:0; } </style> In 2009, the drug-resistant MRSA carried many news stories around the nation. Since that publicity, some new drugs have been developed to combat the potentially deadly antibiotic-resistant strain of Staphylococcus. However, emerging as a new threat is a new super bacteria that seems resistant to all currently prescribed antibiotics.
The germ known as a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or an Acinetobacter is already credited with killing thousands of hospital patients. To date, pharmaceutical companies have not begun to develop drugs to combat the Gram-negative bacteria. While there is no drug to fight it, the germ continues to evolve into more immune resistant forms which could create an even larger health threat than MRSA.
According to Dr. Louis B. Rice, an infectious-disease specialist for the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, in an interview in the New York Times, the germ is far worse than MRSA and it is becoming more prevalent, especially in hospital settings.
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http://www.thebaynet.com/news/index.cfm/fa/viewstory/story_ID/16938
NATION - 3/5/2010
The germ known as a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or an Acinetobacter is already credited with killing thousands of hospital patients. To date, pharmaceutical companies have not begun to develop drugs to combat the Gram-negative bacteria. While there is no drug to fight it, the germ continues to evolve into more immune resistant forms which could create an even larger health threat than MRSA.
According to Dr. Louis B. Rice, an infectious-disease specialist for the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, in an interview in the New York Times, the germ is far worse than MRSA and it is becoming more prevalent, especially in hospital settings.
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more...
http://www.thebaynet.com/news/index.cfm/fa/viewstory/story_ID/16938