Some hospital bacteria growing 'tolerant' to sanitisers
An Australian study has found that some hospital superbugs are growing increasingly tolerant to alcohol-based disinfectants.
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An Australian study has found that some hospital superbugs are growing increasingly tolerant to alcohol-based disinfectants.
The nanotechnology has a 99.9% kill rate.
MSSA is a much less threatening bacteria than MRSA.
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And it could be just start of the discovery of dozens of new antibiotics.
New research at TCD is looking to find out which strains will become the most dominant.
Between 2002 and 2011, researchers identified a 44-fold increase in the prevalence of PVL-positive MRSA.
Scientists say the discovery “opens new avenues” for reducing the number of MRSA infections.
Around 23 newborn babies have been found with the MRSA superbug in Mayo in the past seven months.
However, we still has a “relatively high” prevalence of the infection in comparison to the majority of European countries.
While incidences of MRSA were the lowest ever recorded by the HSE’s Health Protection Surveillance Centre, the number of measles cases in Ireland rose by 149 per cent last year.
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An Irish study has found the new strain of the superbug in two Dublin hospitals as a separate British study finds the new infection originated in cows.
The World Health Organisation says drug-resistant bugs are developing at a rate that science will struggle to keep up with.