AMR Goes Global: Detection of Allochthonous Anthropogenic AMR Genes in High Arctic Regions
This study has been popping up all over the AMR radar for me for the past week; so, when IContinue Reading
Tag: Drug Resistance
Study from Private Hospital Chain Reveals High Mortality in Patients with Multi Drug Resistant Infections
My thoughts on a recently published study that looks at the
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If Carbapenems Go, Can Colistin be Far Behind?
I wrote about the disaster-in-the-making discovery of transmissible resistance to colistin, a last resort antibiotic, when the Lancet Infectious DiseasesContinue Reading
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The Apocalypse is HERE: Transmissible Resistance to Last Resort Antibiotic (Colistin)
Polymyxins are a group of bacterial origin cyclic polypeptides with antibacterial properties. It was isolated by a Japanese researcher inContinue Reading
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Anthelminthic Drug Donation in the Epoch of Drug Resistance
The Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance has published an interesting review article discussing the impact of scale up of drugContinue Reading
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Artemisinin-Resistant Malaria Threatens India
According to a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, the dangerous, artemisinin-resistant malaria is clawing at the borders ofContinue Reading
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Fatal Nosocomial Infection with Extensively Resistant, Hypervirulent Acinetobacter
Acinetobacter baumanii is a typical critical care “pest” in that it causes infections with high degrees of morbidity and mortality inContinue Reading
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Super-Bugs in Bugs and A Media Scare
This e-pub ahead of print has sent the media into a tizzy, and why would it not! Consider the powerContinue Reading
