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California - Mandatory Reporting Of MRSA Cases February 2008 California doctors and health care workers will be required to report cases of drug-resistant staph infections under a new state rule announced Thursday... more New Approach May Render Staph Harmless February 2008 Researchers at the University of Illinois helped lead a collaborative effort to uncover a completely new treatment strategy for serious Staphylococcus aureus ("Staph") infections. The research, published Feb. 14 online in Science, comes at a time when strains of antibiotic-resistant Staph (known as MRSA, for methicillin-resistant S. aureus) are spreading in epidemic proportions in hospital and community settings... more Immune System Protein Starves 'Staph' Bacteria, Could Lead To New Treatments February 2008 A multi-disciplinary team led by Vanderbilt University investigators has now discovered that a protein inside certain immune system cells blocks the growth of "staph" bacteria by sopping up manganese and zinc... more BD Worldwide (Becton, Dickinson and Company) San Diego, CA. January 2008 *First Molecular Test to Simultaneously Identify Staphylococcus aureus and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus from Positive Blood Cultures more MRSA Evolution And Resilience Highlighted By Studies (NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) January 2008 Studies provide scientists with new details about the complex mechanisms MRSA uses to avoid destruction by neutrophils, human white blood cells that ingest and destroy microbes. MRSA senses danger, and then turns the tables on the white blood cells, destroying them. more Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Spreads Into Nature (Northeastern Siberia, Northern Alaska, and Northern Greenland) January 2008 In the latest issue of the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, Swedish researchers report that birds captured in the hyperboreal tundra, in connection with the tundra expedition "Beringia 2005," were carriers of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. These findings indicate that resistance to antibiotics has spread into nature, which is an alarming prospect for the future of all health care. more

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