Pathogenic bacteria and fungi, including multi-drug resistant "superbugs" have been found on the floors, ceilings, door handles and other surfaces of hospital toilets in the UK, with patient toilets the worst affected, the ...
Apr 29, 2024
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Klebsiella pneumoniae is a common species of bacteria found in our bodies—and may even be lurking in your gut, mouth or nose right now. But it's also a notoriously harmful bacteria that can make us very ill.
Mar 30, 2024
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Over 1.05 million deaths were associated with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and 250,000 deaths were attributable to AMR in the WHO African region, posing an unprecedented health threat. That's according to a new study published ...
Dec 20, 2023
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Health care workers will be relieved to know that hospital coffee machines are not responsible for spreading disease and a general ban doesn't seem necessary, finds a study published in the Christmas issue of The BMJ.
Dec 18, 2023
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Some strains of heavily antibiotic-resistant bacteria in Ghana are not successful at spreading outside of the hospital, suggesting that control measures can be focused on clinical settings to help curb treatment-resistant ...
Oct 16, 2023
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Rapid identification of patients contaminated by "superbacteria" known as "carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae" (CRE), with early isolation of these patients, reduces transmission in hospital emergency departments. However, ...
Oct 2, 2023
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New "hypervirulent" strains of the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae have emerged in healthy people in community settings, prompting a National Institutes of Health research group to investigate how the human immune system ...
Sep 6, 2023
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According to a study from the international CHAMPS network published in JAMA Network Open, 82% of child deaths in low-income countries could be prevented. The study, which used the minimally invasive autopsy technique developed ...
Jul 26, 2023
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Multidrug-resistant E. coli were found in 40% of supermarket meat samples tested in a Spanish study. E. coli strains capable of causing severe infections in people were also highly prevalent, this year's European Congress ...
Apr 14, 2023
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Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, certain hospital pathogens that are resistant to many antibiotics have been detected with striking frequency in German hospitals. Due to a combination of two enzymes, some strains ...
Feb 2, 2023
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