Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)

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Antibiotic Resistance Could Be Transmitted Through The Air From Farms

Catharine Paddock | Medical News Today | January 30, 2015

A new study shows scientists are starting to understand how antibiotic resistance from open-air farms can travel through the air to spread to human populations...

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European Inventor Armed With Lab-On-A-Chip Fights Infectious Disease And Personalizes Skin Care

Tina Shah | Tech Times | January 20, 2015

Some argue antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the ability of microbes to develop resistance to antimicrobial drugs, is a growing threat. Others say superbugs are already here, citing the increase in strains of antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis worldwide and the spread of staph infections...

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Experts Propose Global Targets for Cutting Antibiotic Use

Chris Dall | CIDRAP News | August 19, 2016

Arguing that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens to erase decades of progress in medicine, public health, and food security, a group of global health experts is urging the United Nations (UN) to set global targets for reduced antibiotic consumption. In a commentary published yesterday in Science, the authors argue that countries should aim to consume no more than the current median global level of antibiotics (8.54 defined daily doses per capita per year), an amount they say would reduce global antibiotic use by more than 17.5%...

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Pfizer Unveils ATLAS®, An Interactive, User-Friendly Website That Provides Global Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance Data Across 60 Countries

Press Release | Pfizer Inc. | April 21, 2017

Pfizer Inc. today announced the launch of the company’s Antimicrobial Testing Leadership and Surveillance (ATLAS) website, which is designed to provide physicians and the global health community with easy access to critical data on the efficacy of various antibiotic treatments and emerging resistance patterns across more than 60 countries. Understanding evolving bacterial resistance patterns is a key element in managing the rise of antimicrobial resistance. To that end, ATLAS can not only help physicians select the most appropriate treatment choices for their patients, but also enable global health authorities to develop data-driven antimicrobial resistance mitigation strategies...

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Phage Therapy Shown to Kill Drug-Resistant Superbug

Press Release | University of Liverpool | March 13, 2017

Scientists from the University of Liverpool have shown that phage therapy could offer a safe and effective alternative to antibiotics in the treatment of Cystic Fibrosis lung infections. Chronic lung infections caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa are becoming increasingly difficult to treat due to antimicrobial resistance (AMR). With limited alternative therapeutic options available this has led to a renewed interest in (bacterio)phage therapy. Phages are viruses that kill bacteria but are otherwise harmless. A major advantage is that phages only target the harmful bacteria, so there are less side of the effects often associated with antibiotics...

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Researchers To Investigate If Farming Practices Are Increasing Antibiotic Resistant Superbugs

Staff Writer | Somerset County Gazette | January 19, 2015

Projects to track antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the livestock sector are being conducted by researchers at Colorado State University in the United States...

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Unchecked Superbugs Could Kill 10 Million A Year, Cost $100 Trillion (United Kingdom)

Kate Kelland | Reuters UK | December 11, 2014

Drug-resistant superbugs could kill an extra 10 million people a year and cost up to $100 trillion (£63.68 trillion) by 2050 if their rampant global spread is not halted, according to a British government-commissioned review...

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