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Antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotic Resistance

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Antibiotic Resistance Defined

The ability of a bacterium to synthesize a protein that neutralizes an antibiotic.

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Toward Improved Antibiotics Using Proteins From Marine Diatoms - Biomacromolecules Journal

Published September 7, 2008, 3:17 am, Medical News Today

Researchers in Florida are reporting an advance toward tapping the enormous potential of an emerging new group of antibiotics identical to certain germ-fighting proteins found in the human immune system. Their study, which may help fight the growing epidemic of drug-resistant infections, is in the current (August) issue of ACS' Biomacromolecules, a monthly journal. In the new study, D.

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Promising Method For Reducing MRSA Infections In Hospital Intensive Care Units Revealed By University Of Virginia Study

Published September 7, 2008, 3:16 am, Medical News Today

Doctors at the University of Virginia Health System have significantly reduced MRSA infections among surgical intensive care patients by using antibiotic cycling, a method of rotating drugs at regular intervals.

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Marijuana Ingredients Show Promise In Battling Superbugs - Journal Of Natural Products

Published September 7, 2008, 3:16 am, Medical News Today

Substances in marijuana show promise for fighting deadly drug-resistant bacterial infections, including so-called "superbugs," without causing the drug's mood-altering effects, scientists in Italy and the United Kingdom are reporting.

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Community-acquired infection rising in Tahoe area

Published September 6, 2008, 11:12 pm, Sierra Sun

Cases of infections caused by an antibiotic-resistant bacteria are increasing in the region, although in contradiction to a national surge, most local cases are occurring in communal areas outside hospitals.

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Chattanooga: Antibiotics in water pose resistance risk

Published September 6, 2008, 9:13 pm, Chattanooga Times Free Press

Some of the drugs humans take to help them heal could be threatening lives at the same time.

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When bugs outwit drugs

Published September 6, 2008, 5:09 pm, The Star

The battle against bacteria is far from over as we scramble to keep up with the resilience of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms.

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Dutch patient dies from Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 virus

Published September 5, 2008, 9:52 am, CIDRAP

Sep 5, 2008 (CIDRAP News) – Amid concern about rising resistance to oseltamivir (Tamiflu) in influenza A/H1N1 viruses, a Dutch team this week reported the death of a leukemia patient who was infected with an H1N1 virus that was resistant to the antiviral drug.

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'Antibiotic cycling' lowers MRSA infections in hospital ICUs

Published September 5, 2008, 2:36 am, New Kerala

Washington, September 5 : Doctors at the University of Virginia Health System have successfully used a method called antibiotic cycling, wherein medications are rotated at regular intervals, to significantly reduce MRSA infections among surgical intensive care patients.

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Escalate firepower to win the acne war

Published September 4, 2008, 10:14 pm, The Standard-Times

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am a 15-year-old girl with less-than-perfect skin. My back, chest and face break out constantly. My mom suggested taking birth control pills, but I am hesitant. Fifteen seems too early. My mom was recently hospitalized for a blood...

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High Growth Forecasted for the World Automated and Rapid Microbiological Tests Market

Published September 4, 2008, 1:17 pm, Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Biotechnologies and Genetics industry is available in its catalogue.

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  • Czechs make breakthrough discovery in bacteria DNA: Czech scientists have made a breakthrough discovery, one that research teams all over the world have been striving for for years. Scientists from the University of South Bohemia have detected the structure of an enzyme that can change the DNA in bacteria. The discovery should in time prevent bacteria from being resistant to antibiotics. Ruth Fra?ková spoke to Ruediger Ettrich, the head of the Centre of protein structure and function and one of the people behind the discovery:

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