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It is proven again and again that Modern Civilization is Wrong, and the jungle rule is right. Survival only for the Fittest and Elimination can not be replace.
Bacterias can also gets stronger and stronger to become super bugs, can not be killed by antibiotics and now even alcohol etc sanitizers! You killed only the weak bacterias and the strongest will survive. If you let the weak lives, too many of the weak ones cause the strong to die, then eventually nothing will survive. Man must kill our weak and leave only the strongest, or else ALL WILL BE GONE!
Why is our world full of Bapoks & Lesbians and Retards and FREAKS? Because we did not kill them and eliminate them, and foolishly fucked ourselves all dead with HUMANITY, FREEDOM, EQUALITY, DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, ECONOMY & all these civilized craps. Strength of man kind will become weaker and weaker day by day, chance of survivior approaching ZERO. Gene pool become shit pool. Fucked up entire planet!
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/...bacteria-growing-tolerant-to-sanitisers-study
Some hospital bacteria growing tolerant to sanitisers: Study
Researchers have noticed a rise in Enterococcus faecium infections despite the use of alcohol disinfectants.PHOTO: AFP/GETTY IMAGES
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TAMPA (AFP) - Some hospital superbugs are growing increasingly tolerant to alcohol-based disinfectants found in hand washes and sanitisers, allowing increasing infections to take hold, an Australian study warned on Wednesday (Aug 1).
Hand rubs and washes that contain disinfectants based on isopropyl or ethyl alcohol are widely used around the world, and have dramatically cut infections of one type of superbug, called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
But researchers have noticed a rise in another kind of bacteria that lives in the gut, called Enterococcus faecium, and can be spread via catheters, ventilators or central lines in a healthcare setting.
"Drug-resistant E. faecium infections have increased despite the use of alcohol disinfectants, and currently represent a leading cause of infections acquired in hospitals," said the report in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
Enterococci account for about one in 10 cases of hospital-acquired bacterial infections around the world, and are the fourth leading cause of sepsis in North America and the fifth in Europe, according to background information in the article.
E. faecium, in particular, is believed to cause one-third of enterococcal infections in Australia, 90 per cent of which are resistant to the antibiotic ampicillin, and 50 per cent of which are also vancomycin-resistant.
"Costs associated with the management of patients infected with vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) are high because of the need for isolation rooms, specialised cleaning regimens, and the impact on staff, bed availability, and other resources," said the report.
To better understand the reasons for this bacterium's spread, researchers analysed bacterial samples taken from two hospitals in Melbourne from 1997 to 2015.
"The isolates gathered after 2009 were on average more tolerant to the alcohol compared to bacteria taken from before 2004," said the report.
Being tolerant means the bacteria can survive exposure to alcohol longer.
The delay "is sufficient to allow the bacteria to escape alcohol killing and then cause infection", study author Tim Stinear, a microbiologist at the Doherty Institute for Immunity and Infection at the University of Melbourne, told AFP in an e-mail.
"The bacteria we examined in our study are a long way from becoming resistant to alcohol," he added.
More study is needed to confirm if these bacteria are also growing resistant to sanitisers in other hospitals worldwide.
Researchers are not sure why this particular type of bacteria is acting this way, but say it may be something about the physiology of E. faecium that makes it easier for the bacteria to evolve tolerance to alcohol exposure.
In the meantime, no one is suggesting hospitals stop using hand sanitisers, rather that other cleansing methods are needed, said Stinear.
"Our findings do not signal the end of hand sanitisers, but indicate you cannot rely solely on alcohol-based disinfectants to control E. faecium in the hospital/healthcare setting."
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Superbugs now also becoming resistant to alcohol disinfectants
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Aug 02, 2018
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LONDON - Multidrug-resistant "superbugs" that can cause dangerous infections in hospitals are becoming increasingly resistant to alcohol-based hand sanitizers and disinfectants designed to hold them at bay, scientists said.
In a study of what the researchers described as a "new wave of superbugs", the team also found specific genetic changes over 20 years in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus, or VRE - and were able to track and show its growing resistance.
Their findings were published on Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
VRE bugs can cause urinary tract, wound and bloodstream infections that are notoriously difficult to treat, mainly because they are resistant to several classes of antibiotics.
In efforts to tackle the rise of hospital superbugs such as VRE and MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, institutions worldwide have adopted stringent hygiene steps - often involving hand rubs and washes that contain alcohol.
Tim Stinear, a microbiologist at Australia's Doherty Institute who co-led the study, said that in Australia alone, use of the alcohol-based hand hygiene has increased tenfold over the past 20 years. "So we are using a lot and the environment is changing," he said.
Yet while rates of MRSA and other infections have stabilized due to heightened hygiene, Stinear said, VRE infection rates have not. This prompted his team to investigate the VRE bug for potential resistance to disinfectant alcohols.
They screened 139 isolated bacterial samples collected between 1997 and 2015 from two hospitals in Melbourne and studied how well each one survived when exposed to diluted isopropyl alcohol.
They found that samples collected after 2009 were on average more resistant to the alcohol compared with bacteria taken from before 2004.
The scientists then spread the bacteria onto the floors of mouse cages and found that the alcohol-resistant samples were more likely to get into, and grow in the guts of the mice after the cages were cleaned with isopropyl alcohol wipes.
Paul Johnson, a professor of infectious diseases at Austin Health in Australia who also co-led the study, said the findings should not prompt any dramatic change in the use of alcohol-based disinfectants.
"Alcohol-based hand rubs are international pillars of hospital infection control and remain highly effective in reducing transmission of other hospital superbugs, particularly MRSA," he said.
Stinear said health authorities should try higher-alcohol concentrate products and renew efforts to ensure hospitals are deep cleaned and patients found to be carrying VRE infections are isolated.
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