Understanding MRSA : super staph infections
Super staph infections
Information Television Network.
- [Boca Raton, Fla.] : Information Television Network, 2006.
- 1 videodisc (approximately 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Healthy body, healthy mind ; episode 608 .
Originally broadcast as a segment of: Healthy body, healthy mind.
For the past 60 years, antibiotics have rescued countless lives from potentially deadly bacterial infections -- but the germs are learning to fight back. Infections that don't respond to traditional antibiotics are on the rise across the country. One of the most common of these mutant pathogens is known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus or MRSA. Unlike common staph infections, MRSA cannot be treated with methicillin, amoxicillin or many related antibiotics. MRSA can strike anyone, although hospital patients are the most vulnerable. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that in intensive care units, 65 percent of all staph infections are now caused by MRSA. While researchers scramble to create new antibiotics, experts are stressing steps to prevent MRSA from spreading -- in both hospitals and communities nationwide.
883629207421
Staphylococcus aureus infections.
Staphylococcal infections.
QR201.S68 / U53 2006
616.9297 Und 35
Originally broadcast as a segment of: Healthy body, healthy mind.
For the past 60 years, antibiotics have rescued countless lives from potentially deadly bacterial infections -- but the germs are learning to fight back. Infections that don't respond to traditional antibiotics are on the rise across the country. One of the most common of these mutant pathogens is known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus or MRSA. Unlike common staph infections, MRSA cannot be treated with methicillin, amoxicillin or many related antibiotics. MRSA can strike anyone, although hospital patients are the most vulnerable. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that in intensive care units, 65 percent of all staph infections are now caused by MRSA. While researchers scramble to create new antibiotics, experts are stressing steps to prevent MRSA from spreading -- in both hospitals and communities nationwide.
883629207421
Staphylococcus aureus infections.
Staphylococcal infections.
QR201.S68 / U53 2006
616.9297 Und 35