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MRSA spread worries fuel business for Louisville firm
2014-01-08 01:40:45| Trucking - Topix.net
A Louisville company has found a niche helping businesses and organizations combat the spread of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections, better known as MRSA.
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MRSA spread worries fuel business for Louisville firm
2014-01-07 23:58:46| Air Courier - Topix.net
A Louisville company has found a niche helping businesses and organizations combat the spread of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections, better known as MRSA.
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IBM tackles MRSA and other healthcare infections with RFID-enforced hand washing tech
2013-11-28 17:00:46| Extremetech
It's crazy, but one of the most dangerous things you can do is visit the hospital. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that nearly two million hospital patients contract a healthcare-associated infection (HAI) every year, and 90,000 of those HAIs result in death. These infections, such as MRSA, are caused by bacteria being transferred from patient to patient, usually via a doctor or nurse. Hand washing is by far the simplest solution to these 90,000 unnecessary deaths, but getting healthcare professionals to reliably wash their hands has proven to be difficult. This is where IBM and its low-power mote technology (LMT) comes in.
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MRSA Detected in Norwegian Pig Herds
2013-09-19 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
NORWAY - A special variant of animal-associated Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been detected in samples from eleven pig herds in eastern Norway and from five farms in Rogaland.
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Exposure to Pigs and Manure Associated with MRSA Infections
2013-09-18 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have for the first time found an association between living in proximity to high-density livestock production and community-acquired infections with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, commonly known as MRSA.
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