Some confusion has arisen from the Tories' juxtaposition of MRSA infection rates with hospital death rates.
The hospital trust has one of the worst rates of MRSA infection in England.
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Department of Health figures published last month showed Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust had the seventh worst rate of MRSA infection among general acute hospitals in England over the past three years.
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Infection by MRSA bacteria is increasingly common in hospitals, and there have been cases of bugs which show resistance even to vancomycin, an antibiotic traditionally regarded as "the last line of defence".
The doctors rushed the baby into surgery, where they discovered he was infected with MRSA -- and the infection was so severe that it had eaten a hole through his lung.
The bugs in question run the gamut from fungi, which cause ailments such as athlete's foot, to viruses that cause herpes or a potentially deadly infection known as MRSA, or methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus.
We're making real progress against MRSA but the war against another infection, C-difficile, must be intensified.
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They then went through them to see how many mentioned MRSA, the drug-resistant form of the infection, as a direct or contributing cause of death.
Under Torress-Cook, Pacific Hospital's infection rate for the so-called superbug MRSA is down to 0.01 per 1, 000 discharges, 430 times better than the national average.
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Trials of the drug Tygacil have shown its ability to combat certain infection strains that have become resistant to medicines, including MRSA and the E.coli bug.
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It said it operated "strict infection control practices" which had resulted in the numbers of MRSA infections identified within the trust being reduced by over 50% over the last two years.
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Copper could then be used on commonly touched surfaces, like door handles, in order to minimize the spread of MRSA. If it works, it would be a great boon to preventing infection.
The official name is MRSA, M-R-S-A - a highly drug-resistant staph infection that's challenged researchers for most of this decade.
Up to half of hospitalized patients with MRSA die with it, although it is hard to parse out how many of the deaths are due to the infection and how many are due to the underlying illnesses that put them in the hospital in the first place.
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