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Gonorrhea used to be a fairly easy to treat sexually transmitted disease involving a single shot of penicillin. The disease evolved in time requiring other drugs to be used, but the drugs were plentiful. A new strain could change that.
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The Niagara region of Ontario has been the center of an outbreak of C difficile, which has claimed the lives of 16 people. Seventy-eight confirmed cases have been be reported at three different hospital in the Niagara area.
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Emergence of the superbug New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM-1) has raised a lot of discussion on global public health in general and antibiotic usage in particular.
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The latest additions to the list of countries where the drug-resistant NDM-1 gene has been found are Japan and the United States, with many more countries now reportedly on active watch for what is popularly called a super-bug.
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In hospitals around the country, a new threat is lurking. Clostridium Difficile or C. Diff isn't a household name but is growing into a new epidemic needing to be dealt with. The bacterium is becoming resistant to antibiotics and disinfectants.
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More children are coming down with the superbug MRSA, according to United States researchers. What used to be simple head and neck infections in children are becoming increasingly more dangerous.
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Various studies say that a new intestinal super bug which is resistant to most of the antibiotics is spreading fast across U.S and Canada causing many deaths.
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The genome of a newly-emerging superbug, commonly known as Steno, has just been sequenced. The results reveal an organism with a remarkable capacity for drug resistance.
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A superbug, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus has a hold of injection drug users in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and it is worrying health researchers. The staph bacteria has the potential to be fatal.
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The superbug Streptococcus pneumoniae 19A that causes ear infections has lead to a child having meningitis at Toronto's Sick Kids Hospital. The antibiotic-resistant bacteria is not part of what is covered in the vaccine called Prevnar.
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The campaign to improve hand hygiene in hospitals in England and Wales contributed to a significant fall in the rates of superbug infections, according to a report.
Hospitals in large cities are the breeding grounds of the superbug MRSA, researchers discover.
 Handwashing helped slash rates of MRSA and C. difficile infections in hospitals, British researchers found.
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The answer to the superbug C. difficile problem may be as simple as the generous use of soap and water,
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A recent study of hospital-associated Clostridium difficile infections has shown that only 25% can be traced to contact...
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