Items Tagged ‘infectious disease’
May 9, 2022
By Susan Murphy 
Mark Pearce, 61, was facing a possible limb amputation, even death, when a multidrug-resistant bacterial infection within his prosthetic hip replacement device started raging in his bloodstream. With his fever soaring to more than 105 degrees, Mark was taken by ambulance, that day in spring of 2020, to Mayo Clinic Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota.
Tags: #bacterial infections, bacteria, bacteriophage therapy, center for individualized medicine, Dr. Gina Suh, Dr. Mark Pagnano, genomics, individualized medicine, infectious disease, personalized medicine, phage therapy
March 11, 2022
By Susan Murphy
A growing number of people are dying from antibiotic-resistant infections. These infections are fueled by microbial species that are mutating to evade the drugs developed to destroy them. More than 1.2 million people worldwide died in 2019 from antibiotic-resistant infections. In response, a team of researchers from Mayo Clinic’s Center for Individualized Medicine has developed […]
Tags: antibiotic-resistant, bacteria, center for individualized medicine, Genetics, genomics, infectious disease, personalized medicine