Disease-causing organisms such as staphylococcus aureus and pneumonia-causing bacteria have been detected in paper bills.
Drug-resistant strains of everything from tuberculosis to staphylococcus are killing tens of thousands of patients every year.
Two types of bacteria cause impetigo Staphylococcus aureus (staph), which is most common, and Streptococcus pyogenes (strep).
Researchers looked at thousands of death certificates from 1993 to 2002 which mentioned any kind of Staphylococcus aureus.
The most notorious of these is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a bug that infects wounds and has become rife in hospitals.
One nasty bug inhabiting American hospitals, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, is linked to 18, 650 deaths each year, a 2007 study concluded.
Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterium that lives harmlessly in the noses of around 20-30% of healthy people in the population.
It was only a few years ago that MRSA - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - was a major threat in UK hospitals.
The woman had succumbed to a resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus, a nasty microbe that causes many respiratory and wound infections.
Once the skin barrier is broken, the skin can become infected by bacteria, especially Staphylococcus aureus, which commonly live on the skin.
It was particularly targeted at an especially nasty bug called Staphylococcus aureus.
Seven percent of bills showed traces of bacteria that can cause serious illness, including Staphylococcus aureus and Klebsiella pneumonia, according to the study.
They tested their treated materials with Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli, the gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria that are always giving humans a bad day.
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By testing out various combinations of amino acids, Dr Ghadiri found several octets that were particularly effective against the antibiotic-resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus, a common pathogen.
Just over half of the bacteria found in the skin samples belonged to species that were already known to be common - Propionibacteria, Corynebacteria, Staphylococcus and Streptococcus.
They infected mice with two bacteria that are both common in lung infections - Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus - and sampled their breath after 24 hours.
Staphylococcus aureus is the bug responsible for many hospital infections, and scientists are worried that some strains were acquiring high levels of resistance to virtually every available antibiotic.
Experts say Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, a form of staph resistant to common antibiotics, has become a more prevalent problem in settings such as contact sports that involve skin-to-skin touching.
Of particular concern is a bacteria called Staphylococcus aureus.
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.
Nabi's work on a smoker's vaccine dates to 1996, when Ali Fattom, the company's vice president of research, came up with a workable vaccine for Staphylococcus aureus, a leading cause of infection in hospitals.
Should the NRDC succeed in its efforts, Americans who consume thousands of different canned food products every day could be at greater risk for exposure to Salmonella, Staphylococcus, botulism and other deadly food-borne contaminants.
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It might be useful against drug-resistant staphylococcus bacteria.
As the viruses change color once they've reached impervious bacterial strains, in this case variants on Staphylococcus, they can reveal superbugs within 10 to 12 minutes -- a potentially lifesaving interval when current purification-driven methods can take hours.
He also advises asking for proof of a tuberculosis screening within the past year, as well as a recent test for community-associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA), which can be transmitted by skin-to-skin contact and cause painful skin infections and boils.
Personal touchscreen devices aren't as bad as the self-checkout screens in grocery stores, but he knows of rare cases where people contracted a serious skin disease called Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, from sharing a cell phone with bacteria on it.
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