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Typhoid Fever's Deadly Mutation: Ancient Killer Becomes Resistant To Last-Resort Antibiotics
Typhoid fever, caused by Salmonella Typhi, is evolving extensive drug resistance, making treatment challenging. Researchers found a rise in XDR Typhi strains resistant to frontline and newer antibiotics, spreading globally at an alarming rate.
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Report States India's Ban On Antibiotics In Animal Food Products Critical For AMR Control
This regulatory decision is crucial for protecting public health and combating antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which makes some bacterial infections harder to treat, according to GlobalData.
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Nearly 40 Million Could Die By 2050 From Antibiotic-Resistant Infections: Study
Researchers are warning that the growing threat of antibiotic resistance is making common infections more difficult to treat and putting medical procedures at risk.
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Growing Resistance To Existing Antibiotics A Serious Threat, Says Study
The growing resistance to existing antibiotics amidst the shrinking pipeline of newer drugs is a serious threat to attaining the SDG target by 2030, according to a new study.
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Faecal Disease Outbreak Hits Australian Music Festival, Affecting Hundreds
The outbreak was confirmed at the festival after 230 people who attended reported symptoms.
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Compulsory To Mention Reasons For Prescribing Antibiotics, Doctors Told
All doctors have been asked to compulsorily mention exact reason while prescribing antibiotics or antimicrobial drugs, says the latest note from the Centre to fight antimicrobial resistance.
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Antibiotics For Common Childhood Infections No Longer Effective: Lancet Study
Drugs to treat common infections in children and babies are no longer effective in large parts of the world, including India, due to high rates of antibiotic resistance, a study has found.
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US To Recommend Antibiotic Pill After Sex To Prevent Infections
Amid soaring rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis, US health authorities on Monday proposed that doctors begin prescribing a common antibiotic as a pill taken after sex, despite concerns over fueling more resistant strains.
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Infectious Diseases Becoming More Lethal Due To Air Pollution: Study
Air pollution is contributing to an increase in antibiotic resistance, which poses a serious threat to human health.
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Researchers Discover a Non-Antibiotic Method to Cure Drug-Resistant Infections
A new substance called endolysins has proven capable of killing both resistant and non-resistant staphylococcus aureus without the need for antibiotics. But we will get back to that.
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WHO Report On Increasing Antibiotic Resistance In Bacteria Paints A Grim Picture
It said that more than 60 per cent of Neisseria gonorrhoea isolates, a common sexually transmitted disease, have shown resistance to the common oral antibacterial ciprofloxacin.
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Sustained Rise In Antimicrobial Resistance In India: Top Medical Body ICMR Study
A big chunk of patients in India may no longer benefit from carbapenem, a powerful antibiotic administered mainly in ICU settings to treat pneumonia and septicemia, as they have developed antimicrobial resistance to it, an ICMR study has found.
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Indians Use Antibiotics Excessively, Azithromycin On Top: Lancet Study
The Lancet study said that an overlap in regulatory powers between national and state-level agencies complicate antibiotics availability.
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Antibiotics: Here Are The Do's Or Don't's Of Consuming Antibiotics
How you consume antibiotics influences their effectiveness. Here's everything you need to know.
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Bacteria With Natural Antibiotic, Antimicrobial Resistance Discovered in Antarctica
Researchers from University of Chile found that the Pseudomonas bacteria, one of the predominant bacteria groups in the Antarctic Peninsula, can be a source of 'resistance genes'. These bacteria are said to carry natural antibiotic and antimicrobial resistance and have the potential to spread out of the polar regions.
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Typhoid Fever's Deadly Mutation: Ancient Killer Becomes Resistant To Last-Resort Antibiotics
Typhoid fever, caused by Salmonella Typhi, is evolving extensive drug resistance, making treatment challenging. Researchers found a rise in XDR Typhi strains resistant to frontline and newer antibiotics, spreading globally at an alarming rate.
-
Report States India's Ban On Antibiotics In Animal Food Products Critical For AMR Control
This regulatory decision is crucial for protecting public health and combating antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which makes some bacterial infections harder to treat, according to GlobalData.
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Nearly 40 Million Could Die By 2050 From Antibiotic-Resistant Infections: Study
Researchers are warning that the growing threat of antibiotic resistance is making common infections more difficult to treat and putting medical procedures at risk.
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Growing Resistance To Existing Antibiotics A Serious Threat, Says Study
The growing resistance to existing antibiotics amidst the shrinking pipeline of newer drugs is a serious threat to attaining the SDG target by 2030, according to a new study.
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Faecal Disease Outbreak Hits Australian Music Festival, Affecting Hundreds
The outbreak was confirmed at the festival after 230 people who attended reported symptoms.
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Compulsory To Mention Reasons For Prescribing Antibiotics, Doctors Told
All doctors have been asked to compulsorily mention exact reason while prescribing antibiotics or antimicrobial drugs, says the latest note from the Centre to fight antimicrobial resistance.
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Antibiotics For Common Childhood Infections No Longer Effective: Lancet Study
Drugs to treat common infections in children and babies are no longer effective in large parts of the world, including India, due to high rates of antibiotic resistance, a study has found.
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US To Recommend Antibiotic Pill After Sex To Prevent Infections
Amid soaring rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis, US health authorities on Monday proposed that doctors begin prescribing a common antibiotic as a pill taken after sex, despite concerns over fueling more resistant strains.
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Infectious Diseases Becoming More Lethal Due To Air Pollution: Study
Air pollution is contributing to an increase in antibiotic resistance, which poses a serious threat to human health.
-
Researchers Discover a Non-Antibiotic Method to Cure Drug-Resistant Infections
A new substance called endolysins has proven capable of killing both resistant and non-resistant staphylococcus aureus without the need for antibiotics. But we will get back to that.
-
WHO Report On Increasing Antibiotic Resistance In Bacteria Paints A Grim Picture
It said that more than 60 per cent of Neisseria gonorrhoea isolates, a common sexually transmitted disease, have shown resistance to the common oral antibacterial ciprofloxacin.
-
Sustained Rise In Antimicrobial Resistance In India: Top Medical Body ICMR Study
A big chunk of patients in India may no longer benefit from carbapenem, a powerful antibiotic administered mainly in ICU settings to treat pneumonia and septicemia, as they have developed antimicrobial resistance to it, an ICMR study has found.
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Indians Use Antibiotics Excessively, Azithromycin On Top: Lancet Study
The Lancet study said that an overlap in regulatory powers between national and state-level agencies complicate antibiotics availability.
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Antibiotics: Here Are The Do's Or Don't's Of Consuming Antibiotics
How you consume antibiotics influences their effectiveness. Here's everything you need to know.
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Bacteria With Natural Antibiotic, Antimicrobial Resistance Discovered in Antarctica
Researchers from University of Chile found that the Pseudomonas bacteria, one of the predominant bacteria groups in the Antarctic Peninsula, can be a source of 'resistance genes'. These bacteria are said to carry natural antibiotic and antimicrobial resistance and have the potential to spread out of the polar regions.
