Preserving antibiotics, rationally
Antimicrobial resistance is a critical threat to public health. The value of antibiotics for human health is immeasurable, but were one to try to measure, a plausible estimate of the increase in life expectancy
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Govt to put antibiotic use in poultry, fish under scanner
New Delhi: Antibiotic shots, being used at will to make chickens fatter or shrimps bigger, will be soon regularized. For the first time, National Policy for Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance has put a cap on how much antibiotics can be pumped into seafood or poultry products, including shrimps or fish and fishery products. The policy has named common antibiotics like tetracycline
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Fix the antibiotics pipeline
The framework for antibiotic discovery, development and approval is broken — only four new classes of antibiotics have been launched in the past 40 years. The World Health Organization forecasts a disaster
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Carbapenem-resistant Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae of Sequence Type 36
<p>Sequence type 36 (ST36) Klebsiella pneumoniae is distributed worldwide.<a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Klebsiella-pneumoniae.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/download.jpg"
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Occurrence of antimicrobial resistance in fish-pathogenic and environmental bacteria associated with four Danish rainbow trout farms
<p>Surveillance of bacterial susceptibility to five antimicrobial agents was performed during a 1-year period in and around four freshwater fish farms situated along a stream in western Denmark. Besides
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The path of least resistance: aggressive or moderate treatment?
The evolution of resistance to antimicrobial chemotherapy is a major and growing cause of human mortality and morbidity. Comparatively little attention has been paid to how different patient treatment
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Food Can Pass Resistant Bacteria To People EU
The use of antibiotics and other anti-microbial agents throughout the food chain contributes to the growth of resistant bacteria that can be passed on to humans through food, EU's food agency said on Thursday. The resistance of bacteria has become a growing concern as anti-microbials become less effective in fighting infections, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said in a statement.
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Proper use of antimicrobials emphasised
A significant proportion of kala-azar cases in Nepal and India are resistant to the first line drugs, said experts at a workshop on 'Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance of Selected Infectious
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Global antimicrobial drug resistance : Be prepared, researchers warn
No country acting alone can adequately protect the health of its population against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) researchers warn in the latest issue of the 'Bulletin of the World Health
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Global trends in antimicrobial use in food animals
<p>Antimicrobials are used in livestock production to maintain health and productivity. These practices contribute to the spread of drug-resistant pathogens in both livestock and humans, posing a significant
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Dual functionality nanobioconjugates targeting intracellular bacteria in cancer cells with enhanced antimicrobial activity
<p>Bacterial drug resistance has emerged as a serious global threat mandating the development of novel methodologies that allow facile modulation of antimicrobial action in a controlled fashion. Conjugating
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Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae in children, United States, 1999–2012
<p>The prevalence of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) infections is increasing in the United States. However, few studies have addressed their epidemiology in children. To phenotypically identify
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Will plague return?
A plague bacterium that has developed resistance to several antibiotics may pose a serious threat to human health
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ICMR invites research proposals on superbug
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has invited research proposals from scientists across the country to study the superbug or the drug resistant bacteria. The announcement comes soon after the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced a national anti-microbial policy to help address the issue of superbug, which became international news after the presence of such bacteria (NDM-
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Society must seize control of the antibiotics crisis
<p>What are we to do about antibiotic resistance? Last week, another government report repeated stark warnings about the crisis, and offered some suggestions to improve the situation. The UK report, prepared
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Antibiotic resistance in prevalent bacterial and protozoan sexually transmitted infections
The emergence of multi-drug resistant sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is causing a treatment crisis across the globe. While cephalosporin-resistant gonorrhea is one of the most pressing issues,
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Civil Society Declaration on Antibiotic Resistance
<p>The Antibiotic Resistance Coalition, in this declaration released today, asserts that consumer protection and public health must trump the pursuit of profit, and that effective antibiotics are global
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Fuelling the 'superbug'
Evidence is growing that antimicrobial products add to antibiotic resistance. Scientists warn of a pending medical disaster as certain bacteria defy existing antibiotics.
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On the comeback trail
The scientific community is trying hard to combat communicable diseases which have made a comeback
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Incidence and antimicrobial susceptibility of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates from patients attending the national Neisseria gonorrhoeae reference laboratory of Hungary
<p>The Hungarian national guidelines for the treatment of gonorrhoea were published in 2002 but are now widely considered to be outdated. Improved knowledge is needed with respect to the epidemiology and