Bacteria Articles page 3

Boston Globe - A. They're bacteria that can't easily be treated by front-line antibiotics. One of the most common type is known as MRSA - methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. A. Outbreaks have been identified among professional football players, prison ...

AZCentral.com - A small but growing proportion of the bacteria has become resistant to most antibiotics, including methicillin. MRSA generally causes skin infections, which can be difficult to treat, but it can turn deadly if it gets into the bloodstream or lungs. ...

Times of India - In cows, uterine disease is usually caused by bacteria entering the uterus after the cow has given birth. The same route of infection can also occur in women. However, humans may also be affected by sexually transmitted infections such as ...

Legionella bacteria found in air conditioning

Newsday - Certain strains of shigella and yersinia bacteria, far more common abroad than in the U.S., trigger this reactive arthritis, too, Tauxe says. What about other patient complaints? A variety of other organ problems might be triggered by HUS, that ...

Chicago Tribune - The first boy at Naperville North High School was diagnosed with a drug-resistant strain of staph bacteria a month ago; another student followed two weeks later. But Naperville Community Unit School District 203 officials didn't know there were two ...

Forbes - In its fight against Listeria, and other dangerous bacteria, the food industry has embraced a 'green' solution, using bacteriophages as the way to go. EBI Food Safety, first-to-market with a commercial bacteriophage product, fended off competition ...

Guardian Unlimited - He has locked horns with Gotham City's darkest criminals, including the Joker, the Riddler, Catwoman and Penguin. But now Batman has crumbled in the face of an even deadlier foe: the polluted water of Hong Kong. The Dark Knight, a sequel to the 2005 ...

Pneumonia has many causes

Boston Globe - MELVILLE, N.Y. - The type of antibiotic-resistant bacteria troubling a growing list of US communities appear to be caused by a single strain that is spreading with extraordinary ease, according to federal scientists studying the microbe. Known as ...