Antimicrobial resistance continues to increase while the pipeline for new antibiotic development is drying up; after only eight decades of antibiotic use, bacterial infections that once were easily treated are
Antibiotic resistance occurs when organisms like bacteria and fungi can withstand the drugs designed to counteract them. Discover the definition and types of antibiotic resistance, and then explore the antibiotic resistance strategies and problems they present. What Is Antibiotic Resistance? It's comfort...
morbidity and mortality related to infectious diseases.1This public-health threat has been recognized as a priority for intervention by health agencies at national and international level.2,3In this chapter we will address the definition of resistance, itsbiochemical mechanisms,geneticbasis, prevalence ...
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Gonorrhea is the most common sexually transmitted disease (STD) in the world and it’s making a comeback due to emerging antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Physicians can no longer use a single magic bullet (i.e. an antibiotic) to cure the ...
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of many pathogens made more deadly by antimicrobial resistance. Credit: Biomedical Imaging Unit, Southampton General Hospital/Science Photo LibraryJohan Paulsson’s interest in antibiotics began with body aches and nausea in August 2021. His ...
Emergence of a new antibiotic resistance mechanism in India, Pakistan, and the UK: a molecular, biological, and epidemiological study Karthikeyan K Kumarasamy, Mark Toleman, Timothy R. Walsh … (2010) Summary Background Gram-negative Enterobacteriaceae with resistance to carbapenem conferred by New...
Optimal use of antibiotic resistance surveillance systems INTRODUCTION Antibioticresistance is often described as a unidirectional, progressive process associated withantibioticuse. Typically,antibiotic resistancearises and increases in incremental steps that are the result ofgenetic mutation, the acquisition, inco...
Antimicrobial resistance in bacterial pathogens is a challenge that is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Multidrug resistance patterns in Gram-positive and -negative bacteria are difficult to treat and may even be untreatable with conventional antibiotics. There is currently a shortage of effe...
and it is now time to agree on the basic definition of persistence and its relation to the other mechanisms by which bacteria survive exposure to bactericidal antibiotic treatments, such as antibiotic resistance, heteroresistance or tolerance. In this Consensus Statement, we provide definitions of pers...