Posted on 11/03/2009 7:46:15 AM PST by UAConservative
Nov. 2, 2009 (Philadelphia) -- A newly discovered strain of drug-resistant staph bacteria is five times more deadly than other strains, a new study suggests.
Adding insult to injury, the new superbug appears to have some resistance to the antibiotic commonly used to treat it, researchers report.
Half of patients infected with the new strain of MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) died within 30 days, says Carol Moore, PharmD, a research investigator in infectious diseases at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
That compares to only about 10% of patients infected with other MRSA strains, she tells WebMD.
Moore and colleagues studied 16 people infected with the new strain, called USA600, and 64 people infected with other MRSA strains at their institution.
MRSA strains are typically susceptible to the antibiotic vancomycin, Moore says. But the USA600 strain was at least party immune to vancomycin, she says.
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Things evolve, and bacteria strains evolve fast.
Things evolve, and bacteria strains evolve fast.
This is a big concern when Vanc loses its effectiveness against MRSA, what are you left with, Zyvox?
not good at all.
I’m no microbiologist, but I think there are three major factors to what makes a microbe a major threat to public health; how communicable it is, how virulent it is, and how treatable it is.
This MSRA is a major problem because it’s resistance. Bad in one of the factors. Now the new strain is more virulent and causes more mortality. The only thing keeping it from becoming a major health problem is it’s communicability.
Yes and Cubicin aka daptomycin.
GrapeFRUIT Extract. Outside the body, Manuka Honey! Google it.
The question is - what were the conditions of the people who developed this new strain as an infection - before the infection took hold? I see a 50% mortality and think - this is some nasty stuff, sure enough - but were the people who were infracted already very unhealthy due to the underlying cause of their hospital visit in the first place? The commenta about more advanced age (of those who developed this strain) hints at that - but where is the rest of this story?
This is why these bateria are such a problem in hospitals.
Over worked nursing staff carry the bacteria from patient to patient.
Cleanliness protocols require the nursing staff to wash their hands upon entering a room before touching a patient and on exiting a room.
That is at least twice per patient visit. That adds up in time. It also frequently leads to chapped hands and a number of skin ailments.
Hospitals are cutting staff and nursing staff doesn’t have the time to maintain cleanliness. Add to that that washing your hands that frequently leads to painful skin irritations (an incentive to be non-compliant with cleanliness protocols) and you have a recipe for an epidemic of MRSA.
My FIL died of MRSA pneumonia, but he had taken a fall, broken his hip, had had surgery to repair the break, and was 93 years old. All those factors certainly played a part in his death.
As far as meds, a few year ago, when my kid was a teenager, overnight one side of his face swelled up (from an infected blemish) and they diagnosed MRSA, but put him on clindamycin. He recovered quickly, so I guess back then (if not now) clindamycin must work for some of the MRSA skin infections.
Prayers for those that have MRSA. I know all too well how hard it is to beat. I believe in Liq silver & raw honey.
Prayers for those that have MRSA. I know all too well how hard it is to beat. I believe in Liq silver & raw honey.
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