Connecting with food
In current model of agricultural growth, what goes out is what is best for our bodies and our health - small farmers and local food businesses. What survives is what we do not need - large agribusinesses
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Transition metal diamine complexes with antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA)
<p>Pentaalkylcyclopentadienyl (Cp*R) iridium (Ir) and cobalt (Co) 1,2-diamine complexes were synthesized. Susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus and recent patient methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA)
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Are antibiotics still automatic in France?
The first part of a series of three features on antimicrobial resistance looks at the French campaign that has been held up as an example of how to change the way antibiotics are prescribed. But, as Gary Humphreys reports, 10 years after the campaign
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Pill poppers beware
Indiscriminate antibiotic use has created drug resistance in harmful bacteria
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Novel plasmid-mediated colistin resistance gene mcr-3 in escherichia coli
<p>The mobile colistin resistance gene mcr-1 has attracted global attention, as it heralds the breach of polymyxins, one of the last-resort antibiotics for the treatment of severe clinical infections caused
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Contamination is the greatest challenge for food safety in India: CSE
Red-flagging the rising incidence of food and water contamination in India ahead of the World Health Day on Monday, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said there is need for strict enforcement
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IPCA laboratories Ltd launches injectable antibiotic
Ipca Laboratories Ltd has launched a novel injectable antibiotic combination of cefotaxime sodium with sulbactam sodium for the first time in the country. Growing bacterial resistance to antibiotics
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Repurposing clinically approved cephalosporins for tuberculosis therapy
<p>While modern cephalosporins developed for broad spectrum antibacterial activities have never been pursued for tuberculosis (TB) therapy, we identified first generation cephalosporins having clinically
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India continues to top global pneumonia mortality list
India continues to top the global pneumonia mortality charts, witnessing four lakh deaths of children every year. This translates into 1,095 children dying every day on account of a vaccine-preventable
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Draft Order on Meat and Poultry Products on the Indian Market
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) published a draft Order for domestically produced and imported meat and poultry products that notes a procedure will be developed to inspect and
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Cholera bacteria one up against drugs
Vibrio cholearae -the bacteria that causes cholera has become resistant to several antibiotics. Also its multi drug resistance is on the rise, thanks to the widespread (mis)use of antibiotics,
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Treatment of infections in young infants in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis of frontline health worker diagnosis and antibiotic access
Neonatal mortality—death that occurs during the first 28 days of life—accounts for nearly half of all the deaths that occur in children before they reach their fifth birthday. Worldwide, nearly 3 million
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Chickens double in size over 50 yrs but carry health risks
Poultry farmers can now afford to count their profits before their chickens hatch -and they are big, weighing on average twice as much as they did 50 years ago.The broiler chicken of today ,a product of
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Interconnected microbiomes and resistomes in low-income human habitats
An analysis of bacterial community structure and antibiotic resistance gene content of interconnected human faecal and environmental samples from two low-income communities in Latin America was carried
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Estimation of maternal and child mortality one year after user-fee elimination: an impact evaluation and modelling study in Burkina Faso
The objective of the study was to estimate the impact on maternal and child mortality after eliminating user fees for pregnant women and for children less than five years of age in Burkina Faso.
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Antibiotics given to babies
The medical fraternity has taken a strong objection to ASHAs (Accredited Social Health Activists) dispensing strong antibiotics to few months old babies. Nine lakhs ASHAs are now authorised to dispense co-trimoxazole and gentamicin to millions of babies born in rural India. Doctors point out that while co-trimoxazole can cause jaundice to babies less than two months old and subsequent brain dysfunction, gentamicin (an injectable) is toxic to both the kidneys and ears.
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Genomic history of the seventh pandemic of cholera in Africa
<p>The seventh cholera pandemic has heavily affected Africa, although the origin and continental spread of the disease remain undefined. We used genomic data from 1070 Vibrio cholerae O1 isolates, across
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Food Safety and Standards (Contaminants, toxins & residues) Amendment Regulations, 2012
Food Safety and Standards (Contaminants, toxins & residues) Amendment Regulations, 2012 dated 29-11-2012 relating to Level of Antibiotics in Honey.
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Comprehensive identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with Beta-lactam resistance within pneumococcal mosaic genes
<p>Streptococcus pneumoniae is carried asymptomatically in the nasopharyngeal tract. However, it is capable of causing multiple diseases, including pneumonia, bacteraemia and meningitis, which are common
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Doctors press for drug policy revamp
Change the current drug policy was the refrain at a meeting of doctors at the KEM Hospital on Wednesday to chart out and discuss the plan of containing the XXDR-TB (extensively drug resistant TB). Presenting