The ICAAC-IDSA (48th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy and 46th annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America) meeting ended a week ago, and I’m still thrashing my way through the thousands of abstracts.
Here’s my final, highly unscientific selection of papers that caught my eye:
* Evidence that the community-strain clone USA300 is [...]
As you might guess by the name, ICAAC (the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy) features much research on the pharma side of things. There were many research reports this past week on drugs at various stages that I was intending to write up for you, but I just noticed that Reuters got there [...]
The ICAAC-IDSA meeting has ended, but there are still many abstracts that I have not been through. While I pore over them, though, an interesting paper has just been published that somewhat contradicts earlier research on the presence of MRSA in meat. (Earlier posts are here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.)
The researchers, [...]
Physicians from Madrid reported today on what’s believed to be the first outbreak of MRSA caused by a strain that was resistant to linezolid, usually known as Zyvox, a relatively new and costly drug that is used for complicated MRSA infections and when older drugs fail.
Linezolid resistance in single cases has been recorded before — [...]
Here’s a piece of MRSA news from the ICAAC meeting (see the post just below) that is intriguing enough to deserve its own post.
US and Caribbean researchers have found preliminary evidence of the staph strain ST 398, the animal-origin strain that has caused human illness in the Netherlands and has recently been found in [...]
There are 15,000+ people at the 48th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemistry (known as ICAAC – yes, “Ick-ack”) and 46th Infectious Diseases Society of America Annual Meeting, and at least half of them seem interested in MRSA. At the keynote address last night, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy [...]
Final report from ICAAC-IDSA 08 (news from ICAAC, 3)
0 CommentsNew drugs for MRSA, at various experimental stages
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0 CommentsOutbreak of Zyvox-resistant staph (breaking news from ICAAC 2)
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0 CommentsBreaking MRSA news from the ICAAC meeting 1
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