'Fish Pedicure' a Recipe for Bacterial Infection, Researchers Warn 
U.S. News & World Report
By Alan Mozes THURSDAY, May 17 (HealthDay News) -- "Fish pedicures" in health spas can expose recipients to a host of pathogens and bacterial infections, a team of researchers warns. The practice of exposing your feet to live freshwater fish that eat ...
Fish Pedicures: Bacteria in Your Foot Soak ABC News

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Flesh-eating bacteria patient sees bacteria-ravaged hands 
USA TODAY
AP Aimee Copeland is fighting to survive a flesh-eating bacterial infection that forced doctors to amputate most of her left leg. AP Aimee Copeland is fighting to survive a flesh-eating bacterial infection that forced doctors to amputate most of her ...
Flesh-eating bacteria: The threat, how it's treated KSDK
No tears as Ga. woman sees bacteria-ravaged hands Seattle Post Intelligencer
Flesh-Eating Bacteria Risk Rare Despite New Case Sci-Tech Today
msnbc.com (blog) 
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Instance of flesh-eating bacteria infection rare 
Tucson Citizen
15, 2012, under USA TODAY News Aimee Copeland, the Georgia graduate student battling a life-threatening, flesh-eating bacterial infection, was still on a respirator Tuesday in an Augusta, Ga., hospital, but she is improving, her father says.
Parents read lips of woman with flesh-eating bug San Jose Mercury News
Woman with flesh-eating bug feeling better enough to ask for book Online Athens
Student with flesh-eating bug mouths questions The Seattle Times
al.com (blog) 
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Fighting bacteria's strength in numbers 
Phys.Org
Credit: Dr. Steve Diggle, the University of Nottingham, UK Scientists at The University of Nottingham have opened the way for more accurate research into new ways to fight dangerous bacterial infections by proving a long-held theory about how bacteria ...

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Bacterial Resistance To Drugs Creates Window Of Opportunity For Biopharma Firms 
Seeking Alpha
Together these two phenomena have imposed a new urgency on finding viable treatment options for a slew of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections - a task that might be well suited for smaller biopharmaceutical firms. Big pharma's reluctance to ...

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New mom battles flesh-eating bacteria 
Greenville News
She and husband, Darren, raced to the hospital and within 90 minutes, the new mother was having surgery for necrotizing fasciitis, a rare but potentially deadly infection also called the flesh-eating bacteria. ?She's still critical,? Darren Kuykendall ...

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University of Minnesota startup to treat challenging bacterial infection 
Medical Xpress
A live biological preparation developed by University of Minnesota researchers could put a stop to an increasingly prevalent, and sometimes deadly, infection caused by the bacterium Clostridium difficile. CIPAC Limited, based in Australia with ...
Hospital gut infection warning The West Australian

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Flesh-eating bacteria case: Could a simple drug have cured it? 
Los Angeles Times
Copeland's father, Andy Copeland, told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that Aeromonas hydrophila caused his daughter's rare bacterial infection. Microbiologist Amy Horneman did not treat Aimee Copeland and stressed that she cannot speak to the ...
Zip line adventures in Costa Rica and the risk of flesh-eating bacteria The Costa Rica Star

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No tears as Ga. woman sees bacteria-ravaged hands 
Contra Costa Times
By RUSS BYNUM AP This undated photo provided by the family shows Aimee Copeland, the 24-year-old Georgia graduate student fighting to survive a flesh-eating bacterial infection that forced doctors to amputate most of her left leg.

 

FDA Adds Bacteria to Test Indications 
MedPage Today
By Cole Petrochko, Associate Staff Writer, MedPage Today WASHINGTON -- The FDA has expanded the indication for a respiratory infection test to include bacterial as well as viral causes. The panel was first approved in December 2011 to detect 15 viral ...