resistant staphylococcus aureus

(University of Iowa Health Care) Retail pork products in the US have a higher prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria (MRSA) than previously identified, according to new research by the University of Iowa College of Public Health and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.

(MedPage Today) -- Among children with ear infections following tympanostomy tube placement, infections associated with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) did not result in worse outcomes than those caused by other pathogens, a single-center study showed.

NEW ORLEANS (MedPage Today) -- Pharmacist review of physician orders for antibiotics targeting methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) improved adherence to antibiotic treatment guidelines and decreased spending on anti-infective drugs by 20%, a researcher reported here.

(Children's Hospital Boston) During the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, many previously healthy children became critically ill, developing severe pneumonia and respiratory failure, sometimes fatal.

The largest nationwide investigation to date of influenza in critically ill children, led by Children's Hospital Boston, found one key risk factor: Simultaneous infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus increased the risk for flu-related mortality eight-fold among previously healthy children.

(Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America) Residential washing machines may not always use hot enough water to eliminate dangerous bacteria like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Acinetobacter, a Gram-negative bacteria, from hospital uniforms, according to a study published in the November issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

(University of Notre Dame) A new paper by a team of University of Notre Dame researchers describes a unique process that is central to induction of antibiotic resistance in the problematic bacterium methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

(MedPage Today) -- More than 60% of physicians' coats and nurses' uniforms sampled in a major Israeli hospital tested positive for disease-causing bacteria including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, researchers said.

(MedPage Today) -- Two research groups have independently found a novel form of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) that is not detected by some standard tests.

(American Society for Microbiology) A distinctly new type of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) that is not detected by traditional genetic screening methods has been discovered in patients in Irish hospitals according to research to be published in the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

These findings provide significant insights into how new MRSA strains emerge and highlight the potential for the transmission of infectious agents from animals to humans.

(American Chemical Society) The latest episode in the American Chemical Society's (ACS) award-winning podcast series, "Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions," focuses on new blood test that can quickly tell whether patients are infected with an antibiotic-resistant bacterium that's become a global plague.

This "superbug" is called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or simply MRSA.