Antibiotics

COVID-19 is a major global public health challenge. The pandemic's impacts cut across all sectors. One of the most worrying is its potential impact on antibiotic resistance. Antibiotic resistance is a situation where bacteria adapt so that they are no longer affected by antibiotic drugs. This adaptation can happen for…

Abuja, 22 November 2021 - The World Health Organization is supporting the Federal Government in raising awareness among health workers and Nigerians on the need for caution on antibiotics use to prevent a future public health emergency.  Across the world, experts have been warning for years that antibiotic resistance could…

The healthy infant gut is an ecosystem much like a healthy ocean, and it's filled with trillions of microscopic bacteria. When environmental factors interfere with the natural balance — just as pollution does in the sea — this impacts the body’s ability to function at its best. Today, U.S. babies’…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Phages are viruses that infect bacteria and can also be used to treat human infections. However, as with antibiotics, bacteria can readily evolve resistance to phage attack, highlighting a key limitation to the use of phages as therapeutics. Now, researchers from Yale University have shown that…

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is widespread in the WHO European Region. Each year, more than 670 000 infections occur in the countries of the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) due to bacteria resistant to antibiotics, and approximately 33 000 people die as a direct consequence of these infections. For non-EU countries…

Over-the-counter sales of antibiotics and their consequential misuse and overuse by consumers is a big challenge in Ukraine. Some people are unable or unwilling to see a doctor for medical advice, so they buy medicines such as antibiotics without a clear diagnosis and prescription. Instead, they rely on their own…

The US CDC also paints a worrying picture for serious Covid-19 patients due to AMR. (Representational picture: PTI) Antimicrobials are being misused outside of hospital settings, and drugs such as ivermectin and chloroquine are being used as unproven treatments.Reuters Last Updated:November 18, 2021, 06:53 ISTFOLLOW US ON:Overuse of antibiotics and…

Gram-negative bacteria are the cause of some of the deadliest infections in hospital settings. The bacteria tend to be resistant to treatment with existing antibiotics. For decades, scientists have been finding antibiotics that work against Gram-negative bacteria. In a new study, scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed…

Soils are home to diverse microbial communities that cycle nutrients, support agriculture, and trap carbon -- an important service for climate mitigation. Globally, around 80% of Earth's terrestrial carbon stores are found in soils. Due to climate warming and other human activities that affect soil microorganisms, this important carbon sink…

In adults with febrile urinary tract infection (UTI), use of a "forgotten antibiotic" called temocillin led to less disturbance of the intestinal microbiota than cefotaxime, with significantly lower Enterobacterales proportions, according to a study report in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Susceptibility to third-generation cephalosporins was also lowered in patients receiving…