Antimicrobial resistance is a growing threat. Here’s how resistant genes sneak into human guts via wastewater, food and other routes.
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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.
Antimicrobial resistance is a public health and economic disaster waiting to happen. If we do not address this threat, by 2050 more people will die from drug-resistant infections than from cancer.
Superbugs used to pose the greatest risk to people with compromised immune systems and those who had surgery. But their sexual transmission means antibiotic resistance can spread much more widely.
Unless we do something about about antibiotic pollution in the world’s waterways, the next trip you take to the coast for a seafood dinner just might be your last.
The US Centers for Disease Control has reported a woman in her 70s has died of overwhelming sepsis caused by a bacterium that was resistant to all available antibiotics.
Like the essential medicines list which sets out the drugs each country should have at affordable prices, an essential diagnostics list would detail diagnostic tests for those who need them.
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor at ANU Medical School; Senior Staff Specialist Infectious Diseases; General Physician, Australian National University
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Professor of Molecular Evolution, Macquarie University
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Assistant Professor, Director of Point-of-Care Testing and Associate Director of Chemical Pathology, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor Johns Hopkins University, and Director of the Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Clinical Laboratories, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor of Biocchemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University
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PhD student in Environmental Engineering, McGill University
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Country project Director, of the USAID/Medicines Technologies and Pharmaceutical Services Program (MTaPS)
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Senior Lecturer of Health Systems Pharmacy and Researcher, Makerere University
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Associate Professor of environmental engineering, Civil Engineering Department, McGill University
