منابع مشابه
Growing threat of superbugs
As researchers become increasingly concerned about measuring and preserving biodiversity, microbiologist Hugh Pennington, at the University of Aberdeen, recently wrote that where you stand on biodiversity depends on where you sit. As a researcher working with some of the novel antibiotic-resistant bacteria, Pennington wrote of his lifelong efforts to fight biodiversity and to research all means...
متن کاملNew Ways to Squash Superbugs
“Superbug Strikes in City” sounds like a horror movie title, but instead it is a headline printed in the October 26, 2007, edition of the New York Post. Twelve days earlier a 12-year-old Brooklyn boy, Omar Rivera, died after a wound he received on the basketball court became infected with methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterium that has become resistant to one of the most...
متن کاملNew Ways to Squash Superbugs
“Superbug Strikes in City” sounds like a horror movie title, but instead it is a headline printed in the October 26, 2007, edition of the New York Post. Twelve days earlier a 12-year-old Brooklyn boy, Omar Rivera, died after a wound he received on the basketball court became infected with methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterium that has become resistant to one of the most...
متن کاملThe challenge of treating superbugs.
Infections are a major cause of mortality in critically ill patients. It has been estimated that more than 100,000 health care-associated infections occur annually in intensive care units (ICUs) in the United States.1 This includes 50,000 cases of ventilator-associated pneumonia, 35,000 cases of catheterassociated urinary tract infections, and more than 15,000 cases of central catheter-associat...
متن کاملNanotechnology to fight hospital superbugs
Each year, twice as many people die in Europe from hospital acquired infections than from road accidents. These infectious diseases have developed antibiotic resistance and spread despite the best efforts of staff, mainly through textiles like bed linen. But the technology developed by a European research project helps fight back against the so-called superbugs, by using a revolutionary nanotec...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Genome Biology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1465-6906
DOI: 10.1186/gb-spotlight-20031202-01