Antibiotics are for bacterial infections – they shouldn’t be prescribed to treat viruses.
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Antibiotics are a cornerstone of modern medicine, but resistance is a big challenge – and it’s possibly being exacerbated by the COVID pandemic.
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Through the choice of images in publications, women and children of colour in low and middle income countries were treated with less dignity and respect than those in high income countries.
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Hospitals are more risky than farms when it comes to the spread of the Klebsiella superbug.
Antimicrobial use in poultry is threatening the health of consumers in Nigeria.
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Indiscriminate antimicrobial use in Nigeria’s poultry value chain is putting people at risk of developing resistance to medicines.
There are numerous ways for antibiotic-resistant microbes to enter the human body.
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Antimicrobial resistance is a growing threat. Here’s how resistant genes sneak into human guts via wastewater, food and other routes.
Around 75% of antibiotics, including penicillin and amphotericin B, are derived from natural products.
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With the dual threats of antibiotic resistance and emerging pandemics, finding new drugs becomes even more urgent. A trove of medicines may be lying under our nose.
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Nearly three-quarters of all patients in the study were taking at least one antibiotic. This is high and could indicate overuse.
Clinical officer, Christopher Kiboya, treating a patient in Tanzania.
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Antimicrobial resistance disproportionately affects the world’s poorest and most vulnerable populations in low- and middle-income countries.
Canadian doctors don’t have easy access to newer antibiotics, and must prescribe older, generic treatments that are increasingly ineffective due to resistance.
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Canada lags behind other developed countries in access to newer antimicrobials. Here’s why that matters, and what can be done about it.
Some estimates suggest antimicrobial resistance could cause 10 million deaths per year by 2050.
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Latest numbers show antimicrobial resistant infections contributed to 4.95 millions deaths globally in 2019.
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Antimicrobial resistance kills around 700,000 people worldwide annually. It is a top-ten global health threat.
Bacteria that are resistant to every available antibiotic in the U.S. already exist.
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If no action is taken to address antibiotic resistance, infections from multidrug-resistant bacteria could cause 10 million deaths each year by 2050.
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Penicillin originally came from a fungus, and with thousands of fungi to explore, Aotearoa New Zealand has a potential treasure trove of bacteria-killing compounds.
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With nurse prescribing expanding globally, it’s important they are properly guided and supported when it comes to antibiotics and managing patient expectations.
Multidrug-resistant Candida auris can cause serious infections among patients in hospitals and other group medical care settings.
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Prevention may be the best way to cope with the worldwide wave of treatment-resistant fungal pathogens.
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A new network of public clinical trials institutes is urgently needed to replenish the empty pipeline for new antibiotics.
Hand sanitisers are everywhere.
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During a raging pandemic it is obviously worthwhile to use hand sanitisers, particularly when we are unable to wash our hands. But we should minimise their use when cases drop.
The overuse of sub-standard disinfectants could fuel resistance.
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The increased use of disinfectants could allow for the development of bacterial strains which are resistant to disinfectants.
While the development of new molecules is slower and slower, the acquisition of resistance by bacteria is becoming increasingly rapid.
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While the whole world is obsessed by the COVID-19 pandemic, another equally deadly threat is going unnoticed: antibiotic resistance.
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We found a new way to revert antibiotic resistance. It involves using phage therapy to resensitise a type of bacteria to antibiotics.