How To Use Superbug In A Sentence
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About 10,000 Irish patients contract the superbug each year.
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Launching a new drive against deadly superbugs, he will say people should not be afraid to challenge staff about hygiene.
The Sun
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The government last week put a crackdown on hospital cleanliness at the centre of its fight against the superbug MRSA, which kills an estimated 5,000 in-patients every year in the UK.
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On the scale of media-freak-out irrationality, superbugs have more credibility than the Large Hadron Collider apocalypse, for example, but they're not even up there with swine flu.
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Public beaches may be one source of the surging prevalence of the superbug known as multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, researchers here said Saturday.
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Recent breakthroughs, including the sequencing of the genome of an important bacterium and the discovery of a key to antibiotic resistance in one of the superbugs, are promising advancements.
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Researchers at IBM said they developed a tiny drug, called a nanoparticle, that in test-tube experiments showed promise as a weapon against dangerous superbugs that have become resistant to antibiotics.
WHO Calls for Action on Superbugs
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Drug-resistant superbugs will make cancer untreatable, says health chief
Times, Sunday Times
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The two antibiotic products tested had some antibacterial effectiveness against the superbug while Staphaseptic had a genuine "bactericidal" effect - meaning it killed the MRSA bacteria and reduced the number by a factor of 1,000.
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There are other big obstacles to overcome in the fight against superbugs.
Times, Sunday Times
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The C. difficile bacteria causes severe diarrhea and may have mutated into a virulent superbug over the past couple of years, according to reports.
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New research by a leading expert in the field has included deaths in which MRSA and other superbugs are a factor rather than the direct cause.
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However, infants born prematurely are at a greater risk from superbugs caused by the very antibiotics that are supposed to be reducing their risk of infection.
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A subgroup of the staphylococcus aureus organisms, it is referred to as a superbug because it is resistant to treatment with commonly used antibiotics.
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It has helped us to understand why medicines do not always work as we might hope, why irresponsible use of antibiotics has bred superbugs, how the AIDS virus does its terrible work.
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Shoppers must accept higher food prices to fight the rise of deadly superbugs, the chief medical officer for England says.
Times, Sunday Times
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In July, the most recent superbug, a type of Staphyloccocus aureus, was found in an American patient suffering from a leg ulcer.
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There, doctors confirmed Derek had the MRSA superbug which is highly contagious and readmitted him.
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How concerned should we be about the rise of superbugs resistant to antibiotics?
Times, Sunday Times
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In recent years, some superbugs have even figured out how to resist vancomycin.
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Several types of bacteria found by the five-person team produce an antibiotic that acts against the notorious hospital superbug, MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus.)
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First she caught the C. diff superbug during a hospital stay of just 24 hours.
The Sun
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Another example is the UK NHS decision taken last week to excuse Muslim doctors and nurses from hygene rules designed to stop the spread of hospitatl infections, paticularly of “superbugs”.
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In mutant form, superbugs can wreak havoc in hospitals and rest homes, infecting open wounds and forcing the closure of wards and operating theatres.
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Last year, an estimated 240 people died from the most severe strain of the superbug, which occurs when the infection enters the bloodstream.
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The FDA has called the overuse of antibiotics in food animals "a serious public health threat," linking it to the emergence of super-scary superbugs like MRSA.
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Rhee's team proposes a novel cationic steroid antibiotic called R2R-1 to coM. B.A.t these superbugs.
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The spray metal treatment could revolutionise the fight against the deadly superbug.
The Sun
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According to SELF contributor Maryn McKenna, author of Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA, we should at the very least be cautious and aware.
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Using them too much can, over time, lead to resistant superbugs.
The Sun
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As a result, the antibiotic-resistant bacteria - also known as superbugs - no longer respond to first- or even second-choice antibiotic therapy.
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Urban bombardment: Further, Carson feared that as insects mutated into superbugs, general aerial spraying of insecticides would become an everyday event, as, in 1959, parts of Detroit were dusted from low-flying planes with aldrin, a broad toxic since banned, in an attempt to control the Japanese beetle.
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The winter vomiting bug and the so called superbug [MRSA] are almost exclusively passed between patients attending hospitals.
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Bacteria from the cut-price meat that we eat can remain in the gut for years and, warn scientists, breed superbugs untreatable in humans.
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He will say fear of catching a hospital superbug has overtaken waiting times as the public's most pressing concern about the NHS.
Times, Sunday Times
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Resistance can lead to the creation of a superbug and is one of the reasons penicillin has traditionally been used.
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Public health officials have been concerned about superbugs, particularly one type prevalent in hospitals known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, because they can kill patients.
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WHITFIELD: And now parents and health officials, well, they are on alert after a 12-year-old died from so-called staph superbug.
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DOCTORS have been alerted after three hospital patients died when they caught a new strain of the superbug C. diff.
The Sun
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Medical wet wipes that are used to clean hospital wards are helping to spread deadly superbugs such as MRSA and C. difficile.
Times, Sunday Times
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The adjoining bathroom was off-limits thanks to a suspected superbug case in the next room.
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When she went to hospital to have the wound examined she was informed that she was infected with a strain of staph bacteria, similar to the MRSA superbug.
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Researchers at International Business Machines Corp. said they developed a tiny drug, called a nanoparticle, that in test-tube experiments showed promise as a weapon against dangerous superbugs that have become resistant to antibiotics.
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Unless something is done, we face an onslaught of superbugs, modern variants of old diseases against which we do not have a single cure.
Times, Sunday Times
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Patients are to be encouraged to check if hospital staff have washed their hands in a major drive to tackle life-threatening superbugs.
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After hearing evidence from the World Health Organisation and others in 1997, the EU banned avoparcin because of fears about resistant superbugs spreading from poultry to humans.
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Freaked out after reading Superbug (put us in Megan Fox's corner), we asked Maryn for advice on avoiding MRSA and bad bugs in general. Here's what the scary disease reporter had to say.
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DEATHS from superbug C. diff have doubled in five years, figures show.
The Sun
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The coating is important because it prevents colonization of the tissue by bacteria, such as the superbug MRSA.
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Three bedbugs collected from the other patient tested positive for the superbug MRSA methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, which is also resistant to antibiotics.
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Experts have long known silver is resistant to the superbug and is highly toxic to some other bacteria.
The Sun
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He was killed by the C. difficile superbug.
The Sun
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There is also some speculation that it may lead to a rise in superbugs in the wild.
Times, Sunday Times
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A Belgian citizen hospitalized in Pakistan after a car accident was the first known death related to infection by the superbug.
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A superfit Royal Marine collapsed and died within days of scratching his leg on a bush while on a training run - victim of a mutated superbug one doctor described as the worst she had ever seen.
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More than 340 delegates are expected to debate around 70 motions, which also include tackling the hospital superbug, MRSA.
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When she went to hospital to have the wound examined she was informed that she was infected with a strain of staph bacteria, similar to the MRSA superbug.
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Previous studies found copper is effective against norovirus, flu and superbugs such as MRSA.
The Sun
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When she went to hospital to have the wound examined she was informed that she was infected with a strain of staph bacteria, similar to the MRSA superbug.
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According to SELF contributor Maryn McKenna, author of Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA, we should at the very least be cautious and aware.
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Researchers were particularly interested to see how they coped with "superbugs" like MRSA methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, which is a big problem in many hospitals.
Do antibacterial wipes just move germs around?
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Unfortunately, superbugs can also exchange survival secrets with other bacteria, even different species, allowing additional resistant organisms to grow.
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A company which is headquartered in Basingstoke has the technology to stamp out the killer superbug MRSA.
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The devices play a major role in transmitting infections including superbug MRSA around hospitals, it was found.
The Sun
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Three patients have caught a superbug in Kingston Hospital's intensive care unit, forcing staff to keep new patients in isolation while the area was fully decontaminated.
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And scientists in the UK are looking for new ways to deal with antibiotic resistant hospital superbugs.
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Meanwhile, at the press conference, Sekhar Krishnan, Partner of the Janani Enterprises announced their B-Del mobile de-odorizer, which act as disinfectant for these superbugs.
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In 2005, it was announced that bacteria grown on Fucus have the ability to attack and kill the MRSA superbug.
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The superbug enters the bloodstream through the wound site, and can make it impossible to heal properly.
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