Super Bug

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(1) An organism which, when ingested by macrophages, is either not digested, or is resistant to phagocytosis

Examples Mycobacterium leprae and Leishmania spp reproduce in endocytotic vesicles, and Legionella spp—which inhibit intravesicular phagosomal acidification—turn off the system designed to destroy them
(2) A trival name for an extremophile, an organism—usually bacterial—which survives and thrives in extreme environments, e.g., in highly acid or alkaline settings, temperatures above boiling or below freezing, in deserts, etc.

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Bottom line, if we don't create harmony between all parties, the carbon cycle will be destroyed and super bugs will rule the day.

A delicate balance

These students comprehend the danger of stopping antibiotics too early and their personal role in preventing new super bugs.

Microbiology: not just for nursing students anymore

I'd be ashamed to think I was taking the cash from a brilliant health service which needs all the money it can get to keep on giving patients excellent care - while doing what it can to crush the super bug plague.

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It comes as a Government hit squad has been drafted in to help slash high rates of super bug MRSA on the wards.

Vow over bug and cash crisis; SANDWELL: Hospital trust draws up action plan to tackle problems

University scientists looked into methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus, also known as MRSA or hospital super bug.

Scientists fearful over hospital superbug

The MRSA super bug in our hospitals is a scandal considering the billions of pounds pouring into the health service.

Vent your spleen

Given her brush with death as a result of contracting a super bug in hospital, you'd think she'd want to steer clear of surgery.

Pouting Leslie's TV drama

A HOSPITAL trust in crisis has pledged to tackle its mounting debts and the super bug threat in an action plan for the next year.

Vow over hospital bug and cash crisis; WINSON GREEN: Hospital trust draws up action plan to tackle problems

Then she contracted the killer super bug MSSA in hospital and nearly died.

Voice of the Sunday Mirror: Good luck to brave Leslie

Hospital super bug MRSA can be reduced by using copper alloys for surfaces on wards, a new study by scientists found.

Copper alloys 'could reduce super bug's survival rate'

NEW equipment which can rapidly diagnose if patients have contracted a hospital super bug has been developed by a Coventry firm.

Speed test developed for hospital super bug

THE media coverage surrounding the MRSA super bug has lef to some papers calling for a ban on hospital visiting.