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# MRSA

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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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Aug 1st 2018, 8:30 PM
Irish discovery could help stop superbugs like MRSA
The nanotechnology has a 99.9% kill rate.
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Apr 21st 2016, 9:28 PM
This superbug is on the rise in Irish hospitals
MSSA is a much less threatening bacteria than MRSA.
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Dec 1st 2015, 1:29 PM
Today's top stories in 6 seconds
Don’t have time to mull over the news? Here’s everything you need to know.
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Jan 8th 2015, 1:00 PM
A new antibiotic could finally turn the tide against superbugs and drug-resistant infections
And it could be just start of the discovery of dozens of new antibiotics.
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Jan 8th 2015, 12:02 PM
Yes, airplane seats are as disgusting as you feared
Ugh.
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May 24th 2014, 8:45 AM
MRSA has been in Irish hospitals for 40 years, but it's getting more dangerous
New research at TCD is looking to find out which strains will become the most dominant.
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Apr 16th 2014, 8:39 AM
TCD scientists find significant increases in MRSA strains outside of hospitals
Between 2002 and 2011, researchers identified a 44-fold increase in the prevalence of PVL-positive MRSA.
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Mar 5th 2014, 7:30 AM
TCD researchers discover how MRSA bacterium is carried in human nose
Scientists say the discovery “opens new avenues” for reducing the number of MRSA infections.
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Jan 29th 2013, 7:05 AM
MRSA superbug found on 23 newborn babies in Mayo General Hospital
Around 23 newborn babies have been found with the MRSA superbug in Mayo in the past seven months.
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Oct 12th 2012, 9:29 AM
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things you need to know this morning…
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Oct 12th 2012, 8:38 AM
Rates of MRSA drop to the lowest recorded in Ireland
However, we still has a “relatively high” prevalence of the infection in comparison to the majority of European countries.
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Feb 5th 2012, 8:40 AM
Measles cases on the rise - report
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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Dec 20th 2011, 9:59 AM
Column: I died, but they brought me back - an MRSA survivor's story
Tony Kavanagh’s life as he knew it ended when a routine operation left him with MRSA. He tells TheJournal.ie about going from a thriving business career to the brink of death.
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Jun 13th 2011, 10:45 AM
Antibiotics for treating mastitis in cows was 'cause of new MRSA variant'
Scientists believe that cows’ milk could be the source of the new variant of meticilin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus identified in the UK and Denmark.
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Jun 3rd 2011, 2:04 PM
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things you need to know by 9am: Fears over the spread of new forms of deadly MRSA and E.coli bugs; checkout worker takes Tesco to court over lottery row; and Stephen Fry’s suicide fears.
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Jun 3rd 2011, 8:14 AM
Researchers discover new form of MRSA superbug in two Dublin hospitals
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.
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Jun 3rd 2011, 7:17 AM
Superbugs evolving faster than medicine, worried experts warn
The World Health Organisation says drug-resistant bugs are developing at a rate that science will struggle to keep up with.
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Apr 7th 2011, 4:30 PM