International HAI Studies

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Medizone International, Inc. (OTCBB and OTCQB: MZEI) (http://medizoneint.com)

Superbug MRSA is on rise in Canadian hospitals as well as in the community. A study published in April 2010 found a crucial need to manage Hospital Acquired Infections.

This study only confirms the dire need for the solution Medizone International brings to the table — and the fact that this is an international problem. The authors said, “Why this is happening is not clear, but it is a worldwide pattern, occurring in the U.S., throughout Europe and Australia.” This is an international problem and Medizone International intends to be a international company.

The April issue of the journal, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, published the study in which researchers analyzed hospital data and identified 37,169 patients with either MRSA infection or colonization.

The Canadian Study looked a the infections colonized by the superbug MRSA since 1995, both in hospitals and within the community where it was found MRSA rose 17 fold between 1995 and 2007.

Over the 13-year period, there was also a three-fold jump in the number of MRSA infections associated with more virulent strains from the community, say researchers from the Canadian Nosocomial Surveillance Program, who conducted the study based on data from 48 sentinel hospitals across the country.

“This is the most comprehensive and representative picture we have to date of MRSA in Canada,” said lead author Dr. Andrew Simor, chief of microbiology and infectious diseases at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.

They found the overall incidence of MRSA increased to more than 11 per 10,000 patient days in 2007 from 0.65 per 10,000 patient days in 1995. Infections associated with MRSA strains from the community also rose significantly, to 23 per cent in 2007 from six per cent in 1995.

Researches noted: “We need to continue to be vigilant in controlling this infection … and developing more effective interventions to control the rapid emergence of more virulent CA-MRSA strains from the community that have now been introduced into hospital settings in Canada.”

CA-MRSA is the acronym used to describe cases of drug-resistant Staph caught in the community, not in hospitals. Strains caught in hospitals are generally different from those caught outside hospitals.

Simor said that in the last two years, almost 40 per cent of all MRSA cases are believed to have arisen in the community, with those at highest risk including younger people, the homeless and imprisoned, and intravenous-drug users. Aboriginal Canadians also seem to have an elevated risk.

Community-associated MRSA, which has sporadically broken out among professional and amateur sports teams, usually causes severe skin and soft-tissue infections _ but may also cause a fatal lung infection known as necrotizing pneumonia.

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