By Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily Tue, Mar 05 2013 at 3:00 PM, via Mother Nature Network During the first six months of 2012, nearly 200 U.S. hospitals and long-term acute care facilities treated at least one person who had been infected by the superbug. An emerging superbug is infecting an increasing [...]
The number of new antibiotics being developed is “alarmingly low,” according to a new report by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. By: Jennifer Yang Global health reporter, Published on Fri Apr 19 2013 in The world is running out of drugs that can kill “superbug” bacteria — and the number of new ones [...]
Story by: by Karen Blum, Pharmacy Practice News Hospital pharmacists face several challenges in helping manage antibiotic-resistant, gram-negative superbugs that produce carbapenemases. One of the most worrisome is carba- penemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC). A report in the March issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (2013;34:259-268) found that the proportion ofK. pneumoniae cases resistant to carbapenems [...]
Untreatable and increasingly resistant bacteria infected four per cent of patients in U.S. hospitals , the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in issuing a call to action for healthcare workers to stop further spread. The bacteria, called Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), kill up to half of patients who [...]