The new Director of the Wellcome Trust, Professor Jeremy Farrar, has warned that the threat of antibiotic resistant disease is 'happening now and has been happening for the last decade or more.' In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said that we will start to 'see ...
Antibiotic resistance is the ability of bacteria to withstand the killing power of antibiotics. In other words, an antibiotic that previously cured an infection does not work as well anymore, or may not work at all, to kill the bacteria. Your infection is not cured or may even worsen....
What does antibiotic resistance look like? Americans are among the highest consumers of antibiotics in the world. To see why that's a problem, watch this experiment in which bacteria are dropped into a solution containing a potent, broad-spectrum antibiotic ... and survive. ...
She told Sky News: "It's quite a big threat to not only people's health but people are dying from antibiotic resistance so it's a serious problem and I'm really glad that they're finally starting to address it. "I was in hospital with people who have the same problem and t...
Antibiotic resistance A problem that has plagued antibiotictherapyfrom the earliest days is the resistance thatbacteriacan develop to thedrugs. An antibiotic may kill virtually all the bacteria causing a disease in a patient, but a few bacteria that are genetically lessvulnerableto the effects of th...
Emerging Microbes & Infections: Drug resistance Related external links CDC guidance for CRE control Rights and permissions Reprints and permissions About this article Cite this article McKenna, M. Antibiotic resistance: The last resort. Nature 499, 394–396 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/49939...
Antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria have now spread to every part of the world and might lead to a future where minor infections could kill, according to a global report published Wednesday by theWorld Health Organization. In its first international survey of the resistance problem, WHO found...
At a recentpress conferencejust moments before the United Nations (UN) held ahigh-level meetingon antimicrobial resistance (AMR), Mia Mottley, the chair of a global group on the subject, issued a request:
potential hub for antibiotic resistance gene spread. “We found that nearly 85% of the resistance genes in external habitats overlapped with those in humans,” he said, adding that, “the human resistome broadly represents the global resistome and may be the hub of resistance gene transmission....
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a growing problem in health care globally. To prevent further development of resistance, it is important to understand where and how antibiotic resistance in bacteria arises. New research from Uppsala University shows th