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
Other treatment:
Oculus - wound healing, finance.yahoo.com
Rapid Identification:
Cepheid - Xpert MRSA test (just over an hour) finance.yahoo.com
Acolyte Biomedica (owned by 3M) - BacLite Rapid MRSA (5 hours) acolytebiomedica.com
Accelr8 Technology - 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 |
