Post by Logan on Jun 28, 2016 3:57:23 GMT -6
Rush, Cook County hospitals get grant for fight against deadly superbugs
A collaboration between Rush University Medical Center and the Cook Cook health system will receive nearly $10 million to continue research in fighting deadly superbugs, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.
CDC officials came to Chicago to announce the award and highlight the success the two academic medical centers have had in reducing the spread of the drug-resistant germ CRE, or carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae.
A cleaning protocol developed by Rush and county researchers cut the number of bloodstream infections by CRE by more than 50 percent in four hospitals where it was tested, said Dr. Beth Bell, CDC's director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases.
"They have done groundbreaking work looking at antibiotic resistance as a community problem," Bell said. "Antibiotic resistance is one of the more serious concerns of our time."
Read more: www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-cdc-rush-cook-county-infections-0628-biz-20160627-story.html
A collaboration between Rush University Medical Center and the Cook Cook health system will receive nearly $10 million to continue research in fighting deadly superbugs, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.
CDC officials came to Chicago to announce the award and highlight the success the two academic medical centers have had in reducing the spread of the drug-resistant germ CRE, or carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae.
A cleaning protocol developed by Rush and county researchers cut the number of bloodstream infections by CRE by more than 50 percent in four hospitals where it was tested, said Dr. Beth Bell, CDC's director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases.
"They have done groundbreaking work looking at antibiotic resistance as a community problem," Bell said. "Antibiotic resistance is one of the more serious concerns of our time."
Read more: www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-cdc-rush-cook-county-infections-0628-biz-20160627-story.html