Resistant Skin Infections in Gay Men in SF

[rxdoc]

I have had a couple people ask me about the article that was published early online from the February 19 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine (the Annals), describing an epidemiological study about an infection caused by community-acquired, multidrug-resistant, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA MDR USA300) in men who have sex with men

Comments

[rxdoc]

Be careful. The subjects were stratified by where they lived, not where they were suspected to have contracted the infection.

[casecob]

Makes me want to finish my thesis algorithms first so that I can explore this problem. I feel like we've spoken on my ideas of novel drug-target identification per genomic analysis for progressively drug resistant strains; i.e. map out those regions of excess genomic conservation. I really need to test my algorithms on my eukaryotic system before I head to a prokayrotic system.

Let's hope I can get this done sooner rather than later, eh?

[rxdoc]

Why would you need to test on eukaryotes first?

[casecob]

A few reasons
1) pretty surefire way to test the robustness of the approach when you're dealing with 2x the complexity.
2) I don't know if good time course data exists for s. aureus; whereas my albicans data is all from single patients
3) I've already gotten pretty deep into developing a platform for my system.

:-/

[rxdoc]

That's right... you've been working for a while with C. albicans. I forgot.

[kingfuraday]

Thank you kindly Doc...