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Medical News Today
A new device uses a smartphone and a paper microfluidic chip to detect extremely low levels of norovirus.
Norovirus is a very contagious virus responsible for around 19-21 million yearly cases of acute gastroenteritis in the United States.
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Infectious Disease Advisor
According to results published in JAMA Network Open of a study that tested the feasibility and results of two antimicrobial stewardship and intervention strategies, only post-prescription audit and review was both feasible and effective in settings with limited resources. The strategies tested targeted vancomycin hydrochloride, piperacillin-tazobactam and the antipseudomonal carbapenems.
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The Weizmann Institute of Science via Infection Control Today
First impressions are important — they can set the stage for the entire course of a relationship. The same is true for the impressions the cells of our immune system form when they first meet a new bacterium. Using this insight, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have developed an algorithm that may predict the onset of such diseases as tuberculosis.
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Salk Institute via ScienceDaily
Researchers have developed a new tool — dubbed SATI — to edit the mouse genome, enabling the team to target a broad range of mutations and cell types. The new genome-editing technology could be expanded for use in a broad range of gene mutation conditions such as Huntington's disease and the rare premature aging syndrome, progeria.
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Dark Daily
As new challenges threaten the survival of many hospitals worldwide, medical laboratories may be compelled to adapt to the needs of those transforming organizations. Those challenges confronting hospitals are spelled out in a recent report from management consulting firm McKinsey and Company with the provocative title, “The Hospital Is Dead, Long Live the Hospital!”
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CIDRAP
U.S. lawmakers are urging the Environmental Protection Agency to rethink its position on the use of two medically important antibiotics to treat a disease affecting citrus production. In a letter to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, J.D., MBA, Rep. Jackie Speier, a democrat from California, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a democrat from Massachusetts, said the EPA's proposals to significantly expand the application of oxytetracycline and streptomycin on citrus trees to prevent citrus greening disease — a bacterial infection — will exacerbate the problem of antimicrobial resistance.
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American Medical Technologists
Enhance your credentials to work in the rapidly expanding field of molecular diagnostics.
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Contagion Live
Inappropriate antimicrobial treatment for asymptomatic bacteriuria is common and has been associated with longer hospital stays, a new study found, suggesting that sending urine out for testing in asymptomatic patients should be avoided. The retrospective cohort study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, involved 2,733 patients at 46 hospitals in Michigan and aimed to evaluate a possible association between treatment of ASB, which national guidelines recommend against, and outcomes.
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Drug Target Review
New findings by researchers at Imperial College London have shown that drug-resistant bacteria responsible for deadly hospital-acquired infections shut out antibiotics by closing tiny doors in their cell walls. According to the authors of the study, the discovery could allow researchers to design new drugs that allow antibiotics into bacterial cells.
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University of Birmingham via Phys.org
Scientists at the University of Birmingham have created an antimicrobial coating for steel surfaces which has proven to rapidly kill bacteria that cause some of the most common hospital-acquired infections. Developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham, patented by University of Birmingham Enterprise and to be commercialized by a new company NitroPep, the coating — also called NitroPep — has been heralded as a new tool in the fight against the spread of infection.
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