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Article: Cool weather could stymie infections; Antibiotic-resistant ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  November 13, 2006 ;     521 words ...Doctors believe cooler weather will help douse increasing numbers of drug-resistant skin infections. Staphylococcus aureus, or staph, is a bacteria that can cause skin infections. Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus ...

Article: Antibiotic-resistant skin infections spreading ...
AIDS Treatment News;  February 7, 2003 ;     700+ words ...In the last few months doctors have seen a large increase in aggressive, antibiotic-resistant "staph" (Staphylococcus aureus) skin infections in gay men in some areas -- and a separate epidemic in certain prisons. Symptoms include boils or blisters; treatment can be difficult, and sometimes

Article: Drug-resistant skin infection soaring here
Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA;  August 23, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Bacteria spreading fast, especially among young adults. Five years ago, if a teen wrestler with a little red bump on his shoulder came into Dr. Giuseppe Lancellotti's office, the pediatrician would not have gotten too excited. Now Lancellotti is likely to closely examine the bump, take a culture

Article: Antibiotic-resistant skin infection becoming ...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA);  August 16, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Byline: John Sullivan and Marie McCullough PHILADELPHIA _ For the past two football seasons the Mt. Lebanon High School Blue Devils have lost to a nasty foe: a virulent antibiotic-resistant staph infection that benched 13 of the team's players, sending three to the hospital. The problem has become

Article: Engineered skin cells combat infections.(Tissue ...
Chemistry and Industry;  January 29, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... genetically engineered cultures of their own skin cells to help them fight infection. US scientists ... Cincinnati, Ohio genetically engineered skin cells to increase the production of a small ... HBD4). HBD4 is normally produced in skin cells at low levels. The engineered skin ...

Article: Clonetics Corp. announces the development of the first commercial ...
PR Newswire;  November 3, 1986 ;     700+ words ... ... research product using laboratory-grown skin cells was announced today by Clonetics Corporation ... normal human epidermal keratinocyte (skin cells) and all the ingredients necessary for ... economically, the reaction of human skin cells to chemical and environmental substances ...

Article: Harvard-Columbia team creates neurons from ALS patient's ...
NewsRx Health & Science;  August 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Lou Gehrig's disease) patient's skin cells into motor neurons, a process that may ... Science. This is the first time that skin cells from a chronically-ill patient have ... be able to obtain them from patients' skin cells, says co-author Chris Henderson ...