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Superbug meaning
A strain of bacteria that is resistant to many antibiotics (e.g., MDR, XDR). | Any pathogen resistant to many, even all, of the biocides or other agents used to treat similar pathogens. | An invasive insect, Bemisia tabaci, that is a major pest of vegetable crops, both directly and as a virus vector.
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His team's work is helping usher in new medications to combat this superbug, and perhaps others.
Three new drugs have shown to be effective in treating superbug infections.
In this age of the “superbug”, it is wise to become familiar with these infection-fighting alternatives.
We believe that phages represent a promising means to treat bacterial infections, especially those that have developed resistance to current standard of care therapies, including the so-calledmultidrug-resistant or "superbug" strains of bacteria.
Demanding that hospitals release lists of every superbug they find within their walls, however, as many transparency advocates want, is not the answer.
He picked up the superbug having sex with a woman in South East Asia.
In fact the two are English springer spaniels tasked with sniffing out C. difficile, a superbug that attacks people with weakened immune systems.
The couple knew they had a possible key to solving the superbug crisis and a responsibility to share their knowledge with the rest of the world.
The FDA approved Talicia to treat the increasing drug resistance Helicobacter pylori, news which suggests that the superbug apocalypse may not be as grim as we thought.
Would you like your antibiotic superbug extra crispy or spicy?
A synthetic version of the antibiotic teixobactin cleared a drug-resistant superbug infection in mice.
Email “Hospitals are contacting thousands of patients to tell them they may have contracted a 'superbug'”.
More SuperBug titles remain to be claimed!
The Ottawa Hospital is reporting outbreaks of the superbug Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in two units at its General campus.
There’s a sexually transmitted infection (STI) that you probably never heard of that could be on its way to becoming a superbug.