Recent tabloid hype over the "newly emerging superbug", Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, is misplaced, say experts in this week's issue of the BMJ.

The genome of a newly-emerging superbug, commonly known as Steno, has just been sequenced. The results reveal an organism with a remarkable capacity for drug resistance. The research was carried out by scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute near Cambridge and the University of Bristol.

Green tea can help beat superbugs according to Egyptian scientists speaking today at the Society for General Microbiology’s 162nd meeting being held this week at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.

Governor of Virginia Timothy M. Kaine today approved an emergency regulation by the State Health Commissioner that requires laboratories to report Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection to the Virginia Department of Health (VDH). The regulation is effective today, and will assist public health authorities in the effort to compile data on the prevalence of MRSA for surveillance and investigation.

Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a drug-resistant strain of bacteria, also called superbug, killed nearly 19,000 Americans in 2005, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

As Virginia teen dies of the a bacterial infection called MRSA or methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, the 'Superbug' we are faced with two important health facts: