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December 17, 2008

MRSA and jails and public reaction

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I have a GoogleNews Alert set to crawl for any new posts that mention MRSA. The Google crawler goes pretty deep and often finds things that I would not have known to look for; this week, it has produced a letter to the editor about conditions in a women’s jail in South Florida. The letter itself [...]
Written by Maryn McKenna
Also posted in Florida, community, control
November 4, 2008

Final report from ICAAC-IDSA 08 (news from ICAAC, 3)

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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 [...]
Written by Maryn McKenna
Also posted in ICAAC, IDSA, ST 398, USA 300, animals, fomites, infection control, linezolid, pigs, poor, resistance, zoonotic
October 26, 2008

Breaking MRSA news from the ICAAC meeting 1

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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 [...]
Written by Maryn McKenna
Also posted in Europe, ICAAC, IDSA, ST 398, animals, antibiotics, drug development, hospitals, vancomycin
March 17, 2008

As promised last month

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Not MRSA but worth reading, I hope: My big project on post-Katrina New Orleans, a narrative profile of the leader of the city’s “mental health SWAT team,” has been published by MORE Magazine. Read “After the Deluge” here, and then please take a moment to think what you might do to help the recovery of a [...]
Written by Maryn McKenna
Also posted in New Orleans, politics
May 29, 2007

7-fold increase CA-MRSA in parts of Chicago

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Via the Archives of Internal Medicine, a new study from Cook County Hospital and Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Betwen 2000 and 2005, the incidence of CA-MRSA at the hospital and its neighborhood clinics increased 6.84 times. Notably, meth-sensitive staph (MSSA) did not decrease – this was a true addition, not a substitution of [...]
Written by Maryn McKenna
Also posted in Chicago, MRSA, MSSA, community, poor