Antibiotic resistance. Multi-drug resistance. Drug resistant infections. Multi-resistant organisms. These are all terms that encapsulate a single phenomenon, one that has been labeled by the World Health Organization as one of the biggest threats to public health this century. Antimicrobial resistance ...
The challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) continues to receive significant global attention as common infections become increasingly resistant to the drugs used to treat them. Once an infectious microbe has developed a mechanism of resistance, it can cause longer, more damaging infe...
How are antibiotic-resistant bacteria developed? How do bacteria become resistant to antibiotics? Why are some bacteria intrinsically resistant to some antibiotics? How does penicillin work to kill bacteria? What types of cellular processes do antibiotics affect? How has the misapplication of antibiotics...
The Threat and Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) It may be surprising for many to learn that nearly all classes of antibiotics are becoming increasingly ineffective against the bacterial pathogens they were developed to treat.2This is a result of the ability of these pathogens...
Finally, WHO has developed theAMR Action Framework Annexto the Immunization Agenda 2030. This includes a strategy to articulate the role of vaccines against AMR, a technical annex to the Immunization Agenda 2030, and an action framework...
Researchers have developed a peptoid-based antiviral therapy that mimics the immune system to target viruses effectively, showing promise against three distinct viruses in laboratory tests by disrupting their membrane lipids. Just as bacteria can develop antibiotic resistance, viruses can also evade dru...
In recent years, the field of biological intervention has developed some novel strategies. One approach involves using predators, such asBdellovibrio,Bacteriovorax, andPeredibacter, to eliminate anaerobic Gram-negative bacteria that are periodontal pathogens60,61. Given that beneficial bacteria are mostly...
Which is a reason for antimicrobial resistance being higher in a biofilm than in free-floating bacterial cells? The EPS allows faster diffusion of chemicals in the biofilm. Cells are more metabolically active at the base of a biofilm.
Koch's postulates were developed to identify specific microbial causes of disease. True False Why is it Koch's postulates cannot be used for the microbe E.Coli? What limitations does E.coli have? Why were scientists constrained by Koch's postulate in accepting the fact t...
Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR – the ability of dangerous microbes to grow stronger than the drugs we have to fight them – is an emergency that does not differentiate between high- or low-income countries, nor between rich and poor. If we don’t make addressing it a priority, the entir...