Despite some reductions in the overall antibiotic resistance problem, much more work needs to be done, according to a presenter at the 2019 Annual American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting & Exposition. Captain Arjun Srinivasan, MD, who is associate director for Healthca...
The article presents the report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), which showed that the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention has insufficient data on the utilization of antibiotics in humans and the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant infections.B....
Antibiotic resistance—when bacteria don't respond to the drugs designed to kill them—threatens to return us to the time when simple infections were often fatal. Today, antibiotic resistance annually causes more than 2 million illnesses and 23,000 deaths in the United States. Tomorrow, if it ...
Outcome measures that should be tracked include antibiotic resistance andClostridioides difficileinfection rates. These measures reflect the extent of antibiotic use within an institution and can be impacted by improving antibiotic use through appropriate antibiotic stewardship. In addition, tracking of the...
Specialists in antibiotic policy said the CDC report represented a welcome call for renewed vigilance. Kathy Talkington, director of the Antibiotic Resistance Project at the nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts, agreed with CDC officials that hospital efforts seem to be keeping the problem in check. But ...
(HealthDay)—The burden and threats posed by antibiotic resistance infections are discussed in a report published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Hence, measures to prevent the emergence of resistance must be implemented urgently. A multiplicity of factors drive antibiotic resistance, and solutions require the collaboration of governmental agencies, the pharmaceutical companies, healthcare providers, and consumers. Leadership in the form of a ...
48 h after transduction, antibiotic selection was started with 4 μg/ml puromycin for 2 days or 8 μg/ml blasticidin for 5 days. MSC expressing fluorescent LifeAct were not selected by antibiotics but were identified by fluorescence. Fast-cycling Rho GTPase mutants cDNAs encoding HA-tagged ...
The Clostridioides difficile EIP 2016 panel is available through the CDC & FDA Antibiotic Resistance Isolate Bank (https://wwwn.cdc.gov/ARIsolateBank/). This whole-genome shotgun project has been deposited at DDBJ/ENA/GenBank, and the first versions are described here. The raw reads were...
Multidrug-Resistant Enterococci in Animal Meat and Faeces and Co-Transfer of Resistance from an Enterococcus durans to a Human Enterococcus faecium Forty-eight isolates resistant to at least two antibiotics were selected from 53 antibiotic-resistant enterococci from chicken and pig meat and faeces and ...