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  2. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - Wikipedia

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    Glycopeptides, cephalosporins, and in particular, quinolones are associated with an increased risk of colonisation of MRSA. Reducing use of antibiotic classes that promote MRSA colonisation, especially fluoroquinolones, is recommended in current guidelines. [12] [25]

  3. Staphylococcus aureus - Wikipedia

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    An important and previously unrecognized means of community-associated MRSA colonization and transmission is during sexual contact. [ 136 ] Staphylococcus aureus is killed in one minute at 78 °C and in ten minutes at 64 °C but is resistant to freezing .

  4. Transmission-based precautions - Wikipedia

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    Transmission-based precautions are infection-control precautions in health care, in addition to the so-called "standard precautions". They are the latest routine infection prevention and control practices applied for patients who are known or suspected to be infected or colonized with infectious agents, including certain epidemiologically important pathogens, which require additional control ...

  5. Decolonization (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    REDUCE MRSA, which stands for Randomized Evaluation of Decolonization vs. Universal Clearance to Eliminate methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), was completed in September 2011. [3] This study determined decolonization with chlorhexidine and mupirocin of all patients without screening was the most effective method of reducing the ...

  6. Talk : Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus/Archive 1

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    Statement is quite controversial. Many centres still use Vancomycin as first line, due to the safety profile and cost of Linezolid. Also mentionable that linezolid is bacteriostat

  7. Scientists Link Popular Drink With Over 330,000 Deaths a Year

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    "Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Sugar-sweetened beverages may increase your risk for heart disease and type 2 diabetes, new research ...

  8. A man and his mailbox: How a dispute over rural mail delivery ...

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    Rural delivery always has been a challenge for the Postal Service, which has developed guidelines over the years for how to balance its customers’ needs with the need to operate safely and ...

  9. Multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria - Wikipedia

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    Multidrug resistant Gram-negative bacteria (MDRGN bacteria) are a type of Gram-negative bacteria with resistance to multiple antibiotics.They can cause bacteria infections that pose a serious and rapidly emerging threat for hospitalized patients and especially patients in intensive care units. [1]