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Nate Scheibe

Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae - 1 views

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drug resistance carbapenem

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  • Nate Scheibe on 05 Mar 13
     
    Here is a new MMWR on carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae.
Casey Finnerty

Infections With 'Nightmare Bacteria' Are On The Rise In U.S. Hospitals : Shots - Health... - 1 views

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microbiology antibiotic resistance CRE

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  • carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE
  • "They're basically a triple threat."
  • they are resistant to virtually all antibiotics
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  • Infectious disease specialist Dr. Brad Spellberg, of the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, likens the situation to the Titanic's ill-fated voyage. "We're not talking about an iceberg that's down the line," he says. "The ship has hit the iceberg. We're taking on water. We already have people dying. Not only of CRE, but of untreatable CRE."
  • "If CRE spreads out of hospitals and into communities, that's when the ship is totally underwater and we all drown," Spellberg says.
Casey Finnerty

Vital Signs: Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae - 1 views

www.cdc.gov/...mm6209a3.htm

microbiology antibiotic resistance CRE

shared by Casey Finnerty on 07 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Casey Finnerty on 07 Mar 13
     
    This week's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report focuses on CRE.
Casey Finnerty

'We Have a Limited Window of Opportunity': CDC Warns of Resistance 'Nightmare' | Wired ... - 0 views

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microbiology antibiotic resistance

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  • “We have a very serious problem, and we need to sound an alarm.”
  • Healthcare institutions in 42 states have now identified at least one case of CRE. The occurrence of this resistance in the overall family of bacteria has risen at least four-fold over 10 years. In the CDC’s surveillance networks, 4.6 percent of hospitals and 17.8 percent of long-term care facilities diagnosed this bug in the first half of 2012.
  • CRE stands for “carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae.” Enterobacteriaceae are a family of more than 70 bacteria which share the characteristic of being gut-dwelling (“entero”)
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  • the CDC reviewed six steps that they first published last year in a CRE Toolkit and want health care facilities to take:
  • But an important point is that none of this is required, and none of this is funded.
  • There are no reimbursements, under Medicare, for infection-control as a hospital task
  • Casey Finnerty on 07 Mar 13
     
    This article does a good job summarizing this week's announcement by the CDC director on the gravity of the CRE problem.
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