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US pigs still receiving critical antibiotics despite superbug crisis
2018-09-24 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
Antibiotics crucial to human medicine are still being used in “unacceptable” quantities on US livestock farms, despite rules brought in last year intended to curb their use and combat the spread of deadly superbugs
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Antibiotic Against Superbug Biofilms, RSV
2016-06-01 06:14:55| drugdiscoveryonline Home Page
A potential drug therapy developed at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Vaccine Research (CVR) has proven effective against tough bacterial biofilms and a deadly respiratory virus simultaneously
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New antibiotic-resistant 'superbug' an emerging threat
2015-10-06 00:45:25| Biotech - Topix.net
A relatively new antibiotic-resistant bacteria called CRE is making inroads in some major American cities, U.S. health officials report. Surveillance of seven U.S. metropolitan areas found higher-than-expected levels of CRE in Atlanta, Baltimore and New York City, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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EtO Sterlization Being Used to Combat California Superbug
2015-03-10 11:31:14| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Concerns are being raised at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center as patients are being infected with carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae (CRE) bacteria after having endoscopic procedures. At the moment, seven patients have been infected, causing two to die, and over 175 other patients have been exposed to the...
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Denver Health gets $5M grant to study test for deadly superbug CRE
2015-02-22 08:36:24| Biotech - Topix.net
Denver Health Medical Center has received a five-year, $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the antibiotic-resistant "superbug" CRE, the cause of a recent lethal outbreak spread at UCLA Medical Center by difficult-to-clean medical scopes. Denver Health and Accelerate Diagnostics were awarded the grant to develop a fast and reliable diagnostic test to detect common bacteria directly from blood - and to determine antibiotic susceptibility - all within a few hours.