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...STUBBORN STAPH The bacterium that's responsible for most hospital-related infections may be becoming resistant to antibiotics...
After developing open blisters during practice, Castellano's hands were exposed to the Charles River water. Soon thereafter, Castellano was diagnosed with a potentially lethal staph infection in his blood. Castellano explained that the coaches of the crew team remind the rowers often to clean their hands and sterilize the blisters because of the potentially dangerous water and, further, that he did not follow the coach's directions. John A. DeHoff '00, another first-year rower diagnosed with blood poisoning earlier this year, emphasized the scarcity of such infections: "A lot of people row on the Charles, and this doesn...
...following day, Castellano noticed red streaks, the signs of a spreading infection, running the length of his arm. He said he was diagnosed at UHS with a staph infection in his blood, and was successfully treated with an intravenous antibiotic and then released...
...bacteria, for example, are largely a human creation. Miracle drugs such as penicillin and tetracycline have been so overprescribed and then misused by patients that they have encouraged the bugs to develop immunities. The result is infections that are nearly impossible to treat. One deadly microbe, a type of staph that often causes postsurgical infections in hospitals, can now be attacked with only one antibiotic, vancomycin...
Even such seemingly prosaic but once deadly infections as staph and strep have become much harder to treat as they've acquired resistance to many standard antibiotics. Both microbes are commonly transmitted from patient to patient in the cleanest of hospitals, and they are usually cured routinely. But one strain of hospital-dwelling staph can now be treated with only a single antibiotic -- and public health officials have no doubt that the germ will soon become impervious to that one too. Hospitals could become very dangerous places to go -- and even more so if strep also develops universal resistance...