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If you want to be fully updated on antimicrobial resistance news, here is the most up-to-date and comprehensive overview. The news items are searchable using the search bar and can be grouped by category. Each news item refers to the original publication. The most important news items are included in the newsletter every fortnight.


29 March 2023

FAO publishes antimicrobial resistance terms in different languages

28 March 2023

Protected: IHMA new partner AMR Insights

28 March 2023

Population-level impacts of antibiotic usage on the human gut microbiome

28 March 2023

Cooperative antibiotic resistance facilitates horizontal gene transfer

28 March 2023

A novel combination therapy for treating vancomycin-resistant bacterial infections

28 March 2023

Evidence for wastewaters as environments where mobile antibiotic resistance genes emerge

28 March 2023

Why pull incentives are key to catalysing private investment into antibiotics 

28 March 2023

Gaps in data collection for sex and gender must be addressed in point prevalence surveys on antibiotic use

28 March 2023

WHO releases priorities for research and development of age-appropriate antibiotics

27 March 2023

Targeting NAD+ regeneration enhances antibiotic susceptibility of Streptococcus pneumoniae during invasive disease

27 March 2023

Outbreak of Extensively Drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Associated with Artificial Tears

27 March 2023

Antimicrobial resistance gene of public health concern found in imported seafood – calls for increased surveillance

24 March 2023

Heavy Metal Pollution Impacts Soil Bacterial Community Structure and Antimicrobial Resistance at the Birmingham 35th Avenue Superfund Site

24 March 2023

Increasing Threat of Spread of Antimicrobial-resistant Fungus in Healthcare Facilities

22 March 2023

Reducing antimicrobial resistances by source separation of domestic wastewater

22 March 2023

India’s G20 presidency: A perfect opportunity to catalyse deliberations on antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

22 March 2023

Are threat perceptions associated with patient adherence to antibiotics? Insights from a survey regarding antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance among the Singapore public

21 March 2023

Bacterial species and antimicrobial resistance differ between catheter and non–catheter-associated urinary tract infections: Data from a national surveillance network

21 March 2023

Worsening Spread of Candida auris in the United States, 2019 to 2021

21 March 2023

The evolution of antibiotic resistance is associated with collateral drug phenotypes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

21 March 2023

Investigating the drivers for antibiotic use and misuse amongst medical undergraduates–perspectives from a Sri Lankan medical school

20 March 2023

Prevalence and antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella enterica serovars Enteritidis and Typhimurium isolated from retail chicken meat in Wasit markets, Iraq

20 March 2023

Microbial diversity and antimicrobial resistance in faecal samples from acute medical patients assessed through metagenomic sequencing

20 March 2023

WHO Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) intersessional briefing on “One Health and the Quadripartite”

20 March 2023

The Looming Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Pandemic: Opportunities for Investors

20 March 2023

UCALGARY-LED TEAM HELPS DEVELOP APP TO TACKLE ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE

20 March 2023

Dogs and cats could be passing on drug-resistant bugs to owners, study finds

19 March 2023

Artificial Intelligence vs Antibiotic Resistance

19 March 2023

Challenges in Forecasting Antimicrobial Resistance

16 March 2023

FINAL deadline to apply for CARB-X funding

16 March 2023

Shotgun metagenomic analysis of antimicrobial resistance in wastewater

16 March 2023

A longitudinal study reveals persistence of antimicrobial resistance on livestock farms is not due to antimicrobial usage alone

16 March 2023

Development of the oral resistome during the first decade of life

16 March 2023

International manufacturing and trade in colistin, its implications in colistin resistance and One Health global policies: a microbiological, economic, and anthropological study

12 March 2023

Antibiotic expectation, behaviour, and receipt among patients presenting to emergency departments with uncomplicated upper respiratory tract infection during the COVID-19 pandemic

12 March 2023

GARDP and the University of Liverpool plan to boost collaboration on AMR

10 March 2023

Development of the oral resistome during the first decade of life

10 March 2023

Global Fund, USAID and Stop TB Partnership’s New Collaboration With Molbio Diagnostics Will Increase Access to Rapid Molecular Tests for TB

10 March 2023

Latent antibiotic resistance genes are abundant, diverse, and mobile in human, animal, and environmental microbiomes

10 March 2023

Multidrug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolate SE690: mosaic penA-60.001 gene causing ceftriaxone resistance internationally has spread to the more antimicrobial-susceptible genomic lineage, Sweden, September 2022

9 March 2023

Phage therapy in a lung transplant recipient with cystic fibrosis infected with multidrug-resistant Burkholderia multivorans

8 March 2023

ChatGPT and antimicrobial advice: the end of the consulting infection doctor?

8 March 2023

The European Union Summary Report on Antimicrobial Resistance in zoonotic and indicator bacteria from humans, animals and food in 2020/2021

8 March 2023

Implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship program in the Vascular Surgery ward of a university tertiary care hospital in Pavia, Northern Italy

8 March 2023

SMART researchers develop novel combination bacterium- and host-targeted therapy for treating vancomycin-resistant bacterial infections

8 March 2023

NEW TB VACCINES NEEDED TO TACKLE AMR

7 March 2023

Community-onset bacterial coinfection in children critically ill with SARS-CoV-2 infection

7 March 2023

Incidence of bloodstream infections due to multidrug-resistant pathogens in ordinary wards and intensive care units before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a real-life, retrospective observational study

7 March 2023

Bacteria resistant to commonly used antimicrobials still frequently found in humans and animals

6 March 2023

WHO 2023 data call is now open for antibacterials in the preclinical development pipeline



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