Constant readers: I’m looking forward to having the breathing space to get back to in-depth blogging. Meanwhile, though, news is zipping by — so here’s a quick list of recent things worth reading.
“Cows on Drugs” — a superb history of the 30-year-old fight to get unnecessary antibiotics out of food animals. Note, written by a [...]
As promised, lots to catch up on — so here’s a quick round-up of some great reading that I have been stashing and that you may have missed in the past few weeks.
BBC News: Disinfectants may train bacteria to resist antibioticsThe BBC Health page (bookmark it!) translates a paper from the journal Microbiology on Pseudomonas [...]
The annual meeting of the UK’s Society for General Microbiology is taking place this week, so here’s a quick roundup of MRSA-related news. As with these posts from a year ago, abstracts are not online; in a few cases there are press releases from the science-news service EurekAlert.
MRSA-colonized patients who have been identified in a [...]
There are several new and important reports out on hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) that I hope to get to this week, but I spotted something today that I just had to highlight first:
Constant readers may know that I’ve done a lot of reporting in the developing world. In parts of Asia and Africa, it is assumed [...]
Longtime reader and botanical-medicine expert Robyn spotted this new story and study this morning and pointed it out in the comments to a previous post. It’s about a product, but it’s a product with science to back it, so under my rules regarding commercial products, I am moving it up to post status. (Robyn didn’t [...]
In the new Emerging Infectious Diseases, there is a small but very smart study that ought to get wider play. It was done by a PhD candidate at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill named Lisa Casanova, with the help of faculty and the local health department.
Background: In certain highly infectious environments — including in-hospital [...]
The general meeting of the American Society for Microbiology is taking place in Boston this week, and the agenda is rich with papers on MRSA. Here is one from today, with interesting and dismaying news.
A team from the Welsh School of Pharmacy at Cardiff University tested the killing efficacy of premoistened antibacterial wipes used to [...]
Catching up on MRSA news (not about me)
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