{"id":10930,"date":"2003-04-01T09:05:39","date_gmt":"2003-04-01T09:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=10930"},"modified":"2014-05-28T16:05:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T16:05:05","slug":"antibiotic-resistant-skin-infections-spreading-among-gay-men-also-in-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/10930","title":{"rendered":"Antibiotic-resistant skin infections spreading among gay men, also in prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John S. James, AIDS Treatment News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the last few months doctors have seen a large increase in aggressive, antibiotic-resistant \u2018staph\u2019 (Staphylococcus aureus) skin infections in gay men in some areas \u2014 and a separate epidemic in certain prisons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Symptoms include boils or blisters; treatment can be difficult, and sometimes requires hospitalisation. One HIV doctor in Los Angeles who used to see about one case a year is now seeing two a week. In the past this infection occurred mainly in hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Physicians should note a 1 February 2003 review in the British Medical Journal (\u201cOld Drugs for New Bugs,\u201d BMJ 2003; volume 326, pages 235-236) on evidence for the value of older antimicrobials for resistant bacteria, including staph. It suggests using co-trimoxazole (Bactrim or other brand names) as an alternative to vancomycin for resistant S aureus (also called MRSA). In one case co-trimoxazole was used successfully after a patient had failed the new and very expensive antibiotic linezolid (Zyvox). The article is at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bmj.com:80\/cgi\/content\/full\/326\/7383\/235?maxtoshow=?eaf\"> http:\/\/bmj.com:80\/cgi\/content\/full\/326\/7383\/235?maxtoshow=?eaf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A fact sheet by the US CDC, revised February 7, 2003, is at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ncidod\/hip\/aresist\/mrsafaq.htm\"> http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ncidod\/hip\/aresist\/mrsafaq.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: AIDS Treatment News<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2003 by John S. James. AIDS Treatment News, 1233 Locust St., 5th floor Philadelphia, PA 19107 USA. Phone 800\/TREAT-1-2 toll-free, or 215-546-3776. <a href=\"mailto:aidsnews@aidsnews.org\">aidsnews@aidsnews.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John S. James, AIDS Treatment News In the last few months doctors have seen a large increase in aggressive, antibiotic-resistant \u2018staph\u2019 (Staphylococcus aureus) skin infections in gay men in some areas \u2014 and a separate epidemic in certain prisons. Symptoms &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}