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Dutch Sales of Veterinary Antibiotics Decline 51% in Three Years

Dutch Sales of Veterinary Antibiotics Decline 51% in Three Years | Infectious Answers | Scoop.it
Dutch sales of antibiotics for use in livestock fell 51 percent in the first half of 2012 compared with the same period three years ago, amid a government push to cut veterinary use of antimicrobial drugs.
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UK raises alarm on deadly rise of superbugs

UK raises alarm on deadly rise of superbugs | Infectious Answers | Scoop.it
Britain to call for G8 action against spread of drug-resistant bacteria by clamping down on overuse of antibiotics
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New coronavirus can spread between humans, says WHO official

New coronavirus can spread between humans, says WHO official | Infectious Answers | Scoop.it
World Health Organisation expert plays down fears of pandemic, saying prolonged contact is needed to transmit disease
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France reports first case of deadly SARS-like virus < French news | Expatica France

France reports first case of deadly SARS-like virus < French news | Expatica France | Infectious Answers | Scoop.it
France's health ministry on Wednesday reported the country's first case of a SARS-like virus that has killed 18 people so far, mostly in Saudi Arabia
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Antibiotic Resistance and Hospital Outpatients

Study concludes problems with antibiotic resistance faced by outpatients may be as bad as those in hospitalized patients
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Futurity.org – ‘Plasma’ zaps bacteria in bagged veggies

Futurity.org – ‘Plasma’ zaps bacteria in bagged veggies | Infectious Answers | Scoop.it
Research news from leading universities
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Epimerox: New Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Developed, Kills MRSA, Anthrax | Medicine | Sci-News.com

Epimerox: New Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Developed, Kills MRSA, Anthrax | Medicine | Sci-News.com | Infectious Answers | Scoop.it
Researchers at the Rockefeller University and a pharmaceutical company have developed a new antibiotic that kills a wide range of bacteria.
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Superbugs War Likely Unwinnable: Docs

Superbugs War Likely Unwinnable: Docs | Infectious Answers | Scoop.it
Superbugs result in billions in health care costs.
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Superbugs Are Super Dangerous And Super Expensive, Study Finds

Superbugs Are Super Dangerous And Super Expensive, Study Finds | Infectious Answers | Scoop.it
Superbugs are a new scary reality. The bugs are resistant to antibiotics, they multiply by the billions, and they thrive in environments that would kill off most other living organisms.
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First evidence of person to person spread of drug resistant bacteria

First evidence of person to person spread of drug resistant bacteria | Infectious Answers | Scoop.it
Researchers at Papworth Hospital, the University of Cambridge, and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute reported the first DNA confirmation of person to person t
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Inhibiting Akt May Be A Useful Therapeutic Strategy For Stopping Herpes Infections

Inhibiting Akt May Be A Useful Therapeutic Strategy For Stopping Herpes Infections | Infectious Answers | Scoop.it
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered a novel strategy for preventing infections due to the highly common herpes simplex viruses, the microbes re
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Study Reveals How Bacterial Resistance Works

Study Reveals How Bacterial Resistance Works | Infectious Answers | Scoop.it
Researchers from Tufts University School of Medicine have identified an isolate of E. coli resistant to a class of drugs called carbapenems.
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Infected burn makes dressing 'glow'

Infected burn makes dressing 'glow' | Infectious Answers | Scoop.it
Scientists have developed a medical dressing that 'lights up' when a burn is infected.
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There are bugs that cure infections, protect against stroke and even keep your skin clear: The germs you DON'T want to wash away

There are bugs that cure infections, protect against stroke and even keep your skin clear: The germs you DON'T want to wash away | Infectious Answers | Scoop.it
Living within us are around 100 trillion bacteria — known as the micro biome — and 95 per cent of them live in our gut.
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Vitamin C can kill drug-resistant TB

Vitamin C can kill drug-resistant TB | Infectious Answers | Scoop.it
Vitamin C can kill multidrug-resistant TB in the lab, scientists reveal.
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Malaria hope: the resistant mosquito

Malaria hope: the resistant mosquito | Infectious Answers | Scoop.it
Researchers have found a bacterial infection that could help control malaria by making mosquitoes resistant to the parasite.
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Significant step forward in combating antibiotic resistance

Significant step forward in combating antibiotic resistance | Infectious Answers | Scoop.it
New research is a significant development in combating antibiotic resistance; it will pave the way for the creation of the inhibitors to counteract the process, allowing a renaissance in the use of antibiotics.
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Antibiotics: The One Drug We Can’t Seem to Get Enough Of

Antibiotics: The One Drug We Can’t Seem to Get Enough Of | Infectious Answers | Scoop.it
It's often very easy to get a prescription for penicillin or azithromycin—even when we often don't even need the medication.
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Drug pipeline for worst superbugs "on life support": report

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Nanosponge Mops Up MRSA Toxin In Bloodstream

Nanosponge Mops Up MRSA Toxin In Bloodstream | Infectious Answers | Scoop.it
Biomimetic nanosponge potentially offers a detoxification treatment for a variety of injuries and diseases caused by pore-forming toxins, such as alpha-haemolysin toxin from MRSA.
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Norovirus is back: Coldest March in 50 years sees winter vomiting bug cases rise

Norovirus is back: Coldest March in 50 years sees winter vomiting bug cases rise | Infectious Answers | Scoop.it
The number of cases of the winter vomiting bug had appeared to be falling after its Christmas peak.
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Livestock-to-Human MRSA Transmission Confirmed | Food Safety News

Livestock-to-Human MRSA Transmission Confirmed | Food Safety News | Infectious Answers | Scoop.it
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Study: 5-Variable Score Predicts Response to C. Diff Therapy

Study: 5-Variable Score Predicts Response to C. Diff Therapy | Infectious Answers | Scoop.it
A scoring system using five variables can accurately categorize patients with Clostridium difficile infection by their predicted response to therapy.
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Synchrotron yields 'safer' vaccine

Synchrotron yields 'safer' vaccine | Infectious Answers | Scoop.it
British scientists develop a new way to create an entirely synthetic vaccine which does not rely on using live infectious virus, meaning it is much safer.
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Low vaccine fear in measles epidemic

Low vaccine fear in measles epidemic | Infectious Answers | Scoop.it
Health officials say they are disappointed in the uptake of the vaccines at the centre of a measles epidemic said to be spreading at an "alarming rate".
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Bacteria to become 'bio-batteries'

Bacteria to become 'bio-batteries' | Infectious Answers | Scoop.it
Bacteria could soon be acting as microscopic "bio-batteries" thanks to a joint UK-US research effort.
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