Gaza and West Bank Battling An Epidemic Of Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs; Danger of Spread

Palestinian Superbug Epidemic Could Spread, Say Doctors by Madlen Davies And Emma Graham-Harrison.  The Guardian.  December 31, 2018. 

One-Use, Throwaway Scopes: A Way To Ditch Superbugs?

The Throwaway Scope:  A Way To Ditch Superbugs by Chad Terhune.  Kaiser Health News.  December 15, 2016.

Software Able To Predict Mutations May Provide Tool To Combat MRSA's And Other Superbugs

Can Software Predict The Resistance Of Superbugs To New Drugs?  by Catharine Paddock.   Medical News Today.

New Approach To Antibiotic Resistance: Use Bacterial Byproducts To Make Them More Vulnerable

Antibiotics Work Better When Germs Self-Destruct by John Sullivan.  Futurity.  March 25, 2013.

The serious situation arising from bacterial resistance to antibiotics has prompted new approaches.  This article focuses on the work of a Princeton University professor who has seen an opportunity to exploit a  class of molecules normally produced during growth.  Increasing the amount of this substance may kill the bacteria on its own or may make it more vulnerable to antibiotics

In A Post-Antibiotic Era New Infection Controls Needed

When Hospitals Become Killers by Betsey McCaughey.  Opinion--The Wall Street Journal.  January 30, 2013.

Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella, CRK, is emerging as a major threat to public health and hospitals.   This infection has spread even with strict implementation of CDC infection-control precautions.   Powerful antibiotics are increasingly proving ineffective to deal with CRK.  New standards to deal with CRK have been implemented in an infection at an NIH facility and include screening all patients for CRK and more rigorous cleaning (double cleaning with bleach + a hydrogen peroxide sprayer as well as reporting requirements for CRK.