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Casey Finnerty

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

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microbiology antibiotic resistance

shared by Casey Finnerty on 07 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • “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.
Tyrell Varner

CDC warning of superbug 'nightmare' - Canon City Daily Record - 0 views

www.canoncitydailyrecord.com/...cdc-warning-superbug-nightmare

cdc superbug CRE

shared by Tyrell Varner on 12 Mar 13 - No Cached
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      Tyrell Varner on 12 Mar 13
       
      This is pretty much exactly what we covered in lecture. I just wonder how far/severe the outcome will be until harsh regulation takes place?
  • Overuse and improper use of antibiotics over the years, both in the medical community and the livestock industry, has led to an increase in the number of bacteria that are drug-resistant.
  • At least 80 percent of antibiotics used annually in the U.S. are used routinely in livestock to promote growth.
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  • Food and Drug Administration
  • banned only one type of antibiotic in livestock and urged the industry to voluntarily limit antibiotic use to promote growth.
Nate Scheibe

CDC Features - Pneumonia Can Be Prevented - Vaccines Can Help - 0 views

www.cdc.gov/Pneumonia

pneumonia cdc

shared by Nate Scheibe on 23 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Nate Scheibe on 23 Apr 13
     
    References for presentation
Casey Finnerty

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

www.npr.org/...e-on-the-rise-in-u-s-hospitals

microbiology antibiotic resistance CRE

shared by Casey Finnerty on 05 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • 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.
Tiffany Arcand

CDC - La Crosse Encephalitis | Home - 0 views

www.cdc.gov/lac

shared by Tiffany Arcand on 02 May 13 - No Cached
  • Tiffany Arcand on 02 May 13
     
    Source for Tiffany and Tyrell's presentation
Megan Rasmussen

Aluminum in Vaccines: What you should know - 0 views

www.chop.edu/...aluminum.pdf

vaccination

shared by Megan Rasmussen on 05 May 13 - No Cached
  • Megan Rasmussen on 05 May 13
     
    I was briefly shocked about some of the chemicals found in vaccines, which lead to finding the focus paper for our presentation. This article is about aluminum vaccines but this site: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/additives.htm, form the CDC has some other additives and what these additives are used for.
Nellie Bogunovic

CDC: Food Poisonings on the Rise, Improved Prevention Needed - 0 views

health.yahoo.net/...ise-improved-prevention-needed

shared by Nellie Bogunovic on 09 May 13 - No Cached
  • Nellie Bogunovic on 09 May 13
     
    Why proper aseptic techniques are so important ;)
Casey Finnerty

CDC Threat Report: 'We Will Soon Be in a Post-Antibiotic Era' - Wired Science - 0 views

www.wired.com/...cdc-amr-rpt1

microbiology antibiotic resistance

shared by Casey Finnerty on 17 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • And it calls for action in four areas: gathering better data; preventing infections, through vaccination, better protective behavior in hospitals, and better food handling; improving the way in which antibiotics are used, by not using them inappropriately in health care or agriculture; and developing not just new categories of antibiotics but better diagnostic tests so that resistant organisms can be identified and dealt with sooner, before they spread.
  • “My biggest frustration is the pace of change,” he told me. “Hospitals are making progress, but it’s single digits in terms of the number of hospitals that are being very proactive.
Casey Finnerty

Staph Germs Hide Out In The Hidden Recesses Of Your Nose : Shots - Health News : NPR - 0 views

www.npr.org/...e-hidden-recesses-of-your-nose

staphylococcus

shared by Casey Finnerty on 11 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • The fact that staph germs are hanging out in remote precincts of the nose may explain why efforts to kill off the germs on carriers before elective surgery can fail, Relman thinks. The voyage up the nose also revealed that staph thrived only when another bacterial species, C. pseudodiptheriticum, was in short supply. It could be that this second microbe produces substances that keep staph at bay.
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