Biotech / Medical: MRSA - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
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Moderated By: caly -- (Moderated) -- Started: 5/28/2007 11:48:32 PM  Revision History

This thread is for the discussion of and exchange of information on MRSA which is becoming more and more of an epidemic. Information on companies involved in the battle against MRSA is welcome and encouraged, but persistent hyping of a stock is not.

Some companies involved with MRSA (please help build the list):

Antibiotics:

Merck - investigating platensimycin, finance.yahoo.com 
Theravence, Inc - investigational antibiotic telavancin finance.yahoo.com 
Astellas Pharma, inc - telavancin (with Theravence) - astellas.us 
Paratek Pharmaceuticals - investigational antibiotic PTK 0796 (with Merck), privately held paratekpharm.com 
Targanta Therapeutics - investigational antibiotic oritavancin - IPO filed targanta.com 
Replidyne, Inc., REP8839 topical antibiotic finance.yahoo.com 

Vaccines

Intercell - S. aureus vaccine with Merck - intercell.com 

Other treatment:

Oculus - wound healing, finance.yahoo.com 
Derma Sciences, Inc. - MRSA-effective bandages, finance.yahoo.com 
Ondine Biopharma Corp http - Photodynamic Disinfection - finance.yahoo.com 


Rapid Identification:

Cepheid - Xpert MRSA test finance.yahoo.com 
Acolyte Biomedica (owned by 3M) - BacLite Rapid MRSA acolytebiomedica.com 
Accelr8 Technology - finance.yahoo.com 
BD Diagnostics - BD GeneOhm StaphSR assay - finance.yahoo.com 

Johns Hopkins' basic MRSA info for patients: hopkinsmedicine.org 

cdc.gov 

HA-MRSA - Healthcare Acquired MRSA

CA-MRSA - Community Acquired MRSA

VRSA - Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
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141Well that is just flat out scary. Chris Forte-02/12/2013 09:08 PM
140Want a bigger Yikes? Sorry if I've posted this before: theatlantic.com&#caly-02/11/2013 04:02 PM
139C dif. Yikes mayoclinic.com  Chris Forte-02/11/2013 12:25 PM
138medscape.com  But That's Not All... A grab-bag of other research sugChris Forte-01/27/2013 04:13 PM
137I know it sounds absurd and gross but it's a legitimate treatment. C Dif isChris Forte-01/22/2013 08:24 PM
136<<<<< transplanting fecal matter from healthy people to those Steve Lokness-01/22/2013 12:50 PM
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134my.chicagotribune.com  Gender differences in autoimmune diseases: Blame thChris Forte-01/22/2013 10:41 AM
133I was just telling friends the other day how I think I developed resistance to scaly-01/18/2013 04:08 PM
132I absolutely agree Chris. My grandfather used to say "you will eat a peck oACAN-01/18/2013 10:58 AM
131A friend had been seriously considering it. He was really suffering with variouChris Forte-01/18/2013 07:31 AM
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