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Getty IF AN alien from outer space were to assess what humans have done with antibiotics, they would surely consider us a rather stupid species. Since the first key antibiotic, penicillin, was invented in the early 1940s we have misused and wasted
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But University of Melbourne microbiologist Tim Stinear and infectious disease specialist Ben Howden, at Austin Health, have led a groundbreaking study to probe this hospital superbug. Dr Stinear says what they found, published this month in PLoS
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November 12, 2011 Seriously ill patients can find their health even further at risk if the antibiotics fail to fight the super-bug adequately...Golden staph, also known as staphylococcus aureus, is a bacterium that can cause severe infections in
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Mark Metherell November 5, 2011 Heathscope hospital in Melbourne. S second biggest private hospital group will reveal how it performs on sensitive measures including patient infection and repeat surgery rates, in an unprecedented tactic to lure
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Kate Hagan October 28, 2011 The Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute has the third highest rate of staph infections in Australia. Victoria's Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute have the third highest rate of staph blood infections in Australia, government
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Story continues below Almost every hospital had rates of patients with blood infections from golden staph exceeding national benchmarks at some time, with Concord, Manning Base, Ryde and Tweed hospitals exceeding them for seven of 15 months...Peter
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