Multidrug resistance of bacteria is a rising problem in treatment, especially of seriously ill patients hospitalised in the departments of intensive therapy. Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance are enzymatic inactivation, defects of permeability, antibiotic outflow from bacterial cells, protection,...
Ifyour baby has impetigo, your doctor will give you antibiotic cream to treat the infection. If the infection is also around the mouth, your doctor might suggest that you use a bandage to stop the bacteria from spreading. Thrush can be treated with antifungal medicine that is painted on your...
Ever since Anne Miller’s fever broke on March 14, 1942, making her the first person ever saved by an antibiotic, humans have been simultaneously staving off deadly bacteria in the short run and saving millions of lives but also making infections harder to treat in the long run...
medicine in the 20th century. Today, they're widely used to treat infections caused by bacteria. More than 150 millionprescriptionsare written for antibiotics in the U.S. each year. But bacteria are starting to adapt to the drugs and are becoming harder to kill. That's called antibiotic ...
This is a major concern to health experts because a resistant infection can easily spread and kill people, leading to huge costs for individuals and society. In Kenya for instance, studies have shown that an increasing number of bacterial infections - such as pneumonia, tuberculosis...
The prevalence of multidrug-resistant isolates in clinical settings is rendering common infections more difficult to treat. Indeed, in 2019 AMR was associated with roughly 4.95 million deaths globally and is projected to result in 10 million deaths per year by 20501. Global efforts to combat the ...
and newborn infants also reduces the proliferation of bacteria that is resistant to antibiotics in the gut of infants. This potentially reduces the risk of difficult infections, which I consider a particularly important find due to the ever-increasing prevalence of antibiotic resist...
"We have an explosion of antibiotic-resistant infections in this country and the world," he says, adding that there are "emerging infections" that originate in animals and are transmitted to people. "So I think it's always going to be a field that's in deman...
by whichS. suisbecomes resistant or tolerant to antibiotics may help to develop novel molecules or combinations of antimicrobials to fight these infections. Meanwhile, phage therapy and vaccination are promising alternative strategies, which could alleviate disease pressure and, thereby, antibiotic use. ...
In 2022, researchers published the largest series of case studies of phage therapy for antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections yet. Of the 20 people treated with phages, most with infections related to cystic fibrosis, 11 had a positive response to the therapy. However, only five managed to ...