Re: MRSA - Tests

On 28 Jan, 16:59, Malcolm <Malc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <tdOdnaqEYOxNaADanZ2dneKdnZydn...@xxxxxx>, Pat Gardiner
<patgardi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes



Pat's Note: The UK ones currently take longer, which makes a big differnce
in the real world at the hospital door.

(See
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/lifestyle/your-health/2008/01/28/beating-
the-bugs-that-cause-infection-72703-20398393/)

...Their speedy analysing means hospital staff can be informed within 24
hours if one of their patients is carrying MRSA bacteria, and a test for
Clostridium difficile can be returned in just a few hours....

When is Britain going to get some capable scientists? When our pigs are such
a problem, you need rapid response to cope with the consequences.

http://include.nurse.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080128/NATIONAL02/
80125040/-1/frontpage

MRSA Test Approved
Monday January 28, 2008

The first rapid blood test for the drug-resistant staph bacterium MRSA -
methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus - won U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) approval for marketing.

I see that it has been available in Europe since last May, so the
Americans are lagging somewhat.

http://www.newratings.com/analyst_news/article_1536230.html

BD Receives CE Mark Approval for Two-Hour Test to Identify Superbug in
Patients with Positive Blood Cultures

Monday, May 21, 2007 3:55:00 PM ET
PRNewswire

SAN DIEGO, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --
- First molecular test to simultaneously identify Staphylococcus aureus
and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus now available in the
European Union

BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company),
announced today that it obtained European CE Mark approval for the BD
GeneOhm(TM) StaphSR assay. BD is awaiting U.S. Food and Drug
Administration 510(k) clearance for the assay to be made available in
the United States.

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The NHS don't seem to be using it

and more seriously, according to Defra, they are not using any kind of
tests on pigs despite the reports of pigs passing MRSA to humans in
Holland and elsewhere.

That is at best, gross negligence.

Pat Gardiner
www.go-self-sufficient.com
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