DRUG resistance in bacteriaPUBLIC healthCONTENT analysisDOCUMENTARY filmsIn this article, we discuss the role of participatory video (PV) as a tool for developing community-level solutions to 'Antimicrobial Resistance' (AMR) in Nepal....
Fighting antimicrobial resistance involves developing new antibiotics and making sure they reach the people who need them. This is what organizations like theGlobal Antibiotic Research and Development Partnershipwere created to do. We are seeing encouraging progress for an antibiotic against drug-resistant ...
What is the target of the Carbapenems antibiotic? What are bacteriophages? What are some of the side effects of antimicrobial agents? Name an antibiotic often given for a fungal infection. How does this antibiotic work? Please elaborate on the five mechanisms of resistance. ...
Antibiotic resistance remains a major public health concern, particularly for the so called ESKAPE pathogens: Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterobacter spp., because they are pathogenic and commonly multidrug resistant micro...
The widespread implementation of Antibiotics has saved millions of lives and yet within 80 years of the introduction of penicillin, antimicrobial resistance has been associated with nearly 5 million deaths.1It is postulated that AMR may overtake cancer as a leading cause of mortality by 20502. It...
An estimated 242,000 infections involve antimicrobial-resistant strains. Shigella bacteria that have developed resistance to all of the standard frontline antibiotics — known as "extensively drug-resistant" or XDR Shigella — first begn to spread in the U.S. in 2015 from Americans who likely ...
AntimicrobialresistanceEasternAfricaMinimumreportingguidelinesThe emergence and persistence of antimicrobial resistance is driven by varied factors including the indiscriminate use of antibiotics and variable drug efficacy and presents a major threat to the control of infectious diseases. Despite the high burden...
Using antibiotics when they are not needed or taking the wrong antibiotic significantly contributes to antibiotic resistance. This is because antibiotics not only kill harmful bacteria, but they can also kill helpful bacteria that may protect you from the harmful bacteria. When helpful bacteria die, ...
In microbiology there are opportunities for bismuth regimens in the future. Apart from activity against H. pylori infection there is also evidence for antibacterial activity of bismuth compounds against Salmonella, Treponema, Neisseria and more recently Clostridium difficile 5,10 ....
An antiseptic (from Greek ἀντί anti, "against" and σηπτικός sēptikos, "putrefactive") is an antimicrobial substance or compound that is applied to living tissue/skin to reduce the possibility of infection, sepsis, or putrefaction. Antiseptics are generally distinguished from...