Podcasts & RSS Feeds

infectionsRSS
All ContentRSS
View all podcasts & RSS feeds

Tagged: infections

Antibiotic Resistance
4:59 pm
Thu August 30, 2012

Soil may be a source of antibiotic resistance

Credit (Courtesy of the Research Center for Auditory and Vestibular Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, supported by National Institutes of Health NIDCD Grant no. P30DC04665)
Scanning electron micrograph of the Pseudomonas bacteria.
Share
E-mail
Comments
By

Soil bacteria may be helping to make disease-causing bacteria resistant to antibiotics.

That’s according to a new study out of Washington University.

Lead researcher, microbiologist Gautam Dantas, says he and his colleagues found seven genes in farmland soil bacteria that are identical to genes in human pathogens – and that provide resistance to a wide range of antibiotics.

Read more
Health - Illinois
10:41 am
Fri December 16, 2011

Information about surgical infections at Illinois hospitals now online

Credit (Illinois Department of Health)
The public can now compare surgical infection rates at Illinois hospitals using an interactive map.
Share
E-mail
Comments
By

For the first time, the Illinois Department of Health is making information about surgical infections in Illinois hospitals available to the public.

Read more