Now that that's out of the way I'll continue with my second point.
Haven't blogged in a while. My bad. So what?
I'm currently uploading the audiobook "Dawn of the Dreadfuls" It's a prequel to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Which is pretty much the only Jane Austin I can stand.
What does this have to do with bugs? Nothing, except it's the excuse I have to sit at the computer and blog whilst it uploads.
Onto bugs.
Simon Lee from University of Nottingham will make you a bug lover. Well, sort of.
MRSA.
If you're a health care worker you know how annoying this four letter "word" is. Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
S. aureus is a lovely little bacteria. When gram stained looks like a little group of grapes, (or is it bunch of grapes?) When grown on blood agar plates it causes hemolysis thus resulting in gold little colonies and therefore the "Aureus" name. (Latin)
Try as I might I can't get the computer to release the italics. So you must pay VERY CLOSE ATTENTION.
The "drug of choice" for staph WAS the "cillins"
However, because of misuse of antibiotics, evolution, etc. Most gram-positive little buggers have grown resistant. MRSA is the name for the "bugs" that are resistant. Therefore requiring a much lengthier hospital stay with stronger antibiotics (and eventually leading to more resistant strains...) The Netherlands currently has the lowest MRSA rates. (just another reason to go orange) here's a bit on why/how.
Simply. Wash your hands.
But if that's too much for you. Squish some cockroaches and EAT THEIR BRAINZ!
It all comes back to zombies in the end.
This is where you'll like Simon Lee. He and his research team have identified 9 molecules in cockroach brains that have the bactericidal potential to give us the edge over MRSA. They killed over 90% of the bacteria without harming human cells in their initial tests.
Sweet action.
Try as I might I can't get the computer to release the italics. So you must pay VERY CLOSE ATTENTION.
The "drug of choice" for staph WAS the "cillins"
However, because of misuse of antibiotics, evolution, etc. Most gram-positive little buggers have grown resistant. MRSA is the name for the "bugs" that are resistant. Therefore requiring a much lengthier hospital stay with stronger antibiotics (and eventually leading to more resistant strains...) The Netherlands currently has the lowest MRSA rates. (just another reason to go orange) here's a bit on why/how.
Simply. Wash your hands.
But if that's too much for you. Squish some cockroaches and EAT THEIR BRAINZ!
It all comes back to zombies in the end.
This is where you'll like Simon Lee. He and his research team have identified 9 molecules in cockroach brains that have the bactericidal potential to give us the edge over MRSA. They killed over 90% of the bacteria without harming human cells in their initial tests.
Sweet action.
Nice. Especially the part about cockroach brainz...
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