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5 February 2019

CARB-X funds Polyphor to develop a new class of antibiotics to treat serious infections caused by Gram- negative ESKAPE superbugs

4 February 2019

Diversity of Plasmids and Genes Encoding Resistance to Extended Spectrum Cephalosporins in Commensal Escherichia coli From Dutch Livestock in 2007–2017

4 February 2019

Antibiotic resistance in Bangladesh: A systematic review

4 February 2019

Why Dutch hospitals are so good at beating superbugs

4 February 2019

Antibiotic Stewardship—Twenty Years in the Making

4 February 2019

Using local clinical and microbiological data to develop an institution specific carbapenem-sparing strategy in sepsis: a nested case-control study

4 February 2019

MMV and DNDi make 400 compounds available to stimulate research into new drugs for pandemic diseases

4 February 2019

2019 WHO Global Survey on Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) and Hand Hygiene

4 February 2019

One Health report highlights farming antibiotic reductions

4 February 2019

Pharma firms to be incentivised to develop new superbug drugs

4 February 2019

Antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP): an effective implementing technique for the therapy efficiency of meropenem and vancomycin antibiotics in Iranian pediatric patients

4 February 2019

New Novodiag® Carbar+ test allows rapid, cost-effective molecular testing for ‘superbacteria’ and associated drug resistance

4 February 2019

Pherecydes Pharma reports successful patient treatment with bacteriophages

4 February 2019

Scientists say the spread of antimicrobial resistance is a ‘global disaster’

4 February 2019

The Infectious Diseases Society of America’s 10 × ’20 Initiative (Ten New Systemic Antibacterial Agents FDA-approved by 2020): Is 20 × ’20 a Possibility?

4 February 2019

FFAR Launches International Consortium for Antimicrobial Stewardship in Agriculture

4 February 2019

One Health Report on Antimicrobial Use & Antimicrobial Resistance

4 February 2019

Open-Label FURI Study, Showing Oral Ibrexafungerp’s Ability to Treat Refractory Fungal Infections and to Provide an Alternative to Long-Term IV Therapies

4 February 2019

The clinical significance of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae rectal colonization in critically ill patients: from colonization to bloodstream infection

4 February 2019

UK One Health Report: antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance in animals and humans

4 February 2019

Antibiotic resistance in pets an increasing problem

4 February 2019

National Research Program in Norway Targeting Antimicrobial Resistance

4 February 2019

The impact of the national action plan on the epidemiology of antibiotic resistance among 352,238 isolates in a teaching hospital in China from 2015 to 2018

4 February 2019

New Europe-wide survey of healthcare workers’ perceptions about antibiotic use and resistance

4 February 2019

Public discussion on the draft recommendations of the Ad hoc Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance

2 February 2019

It takes two: How biopharma and academia are fighting antimicrobial resistance

2 February 2019

Antibiotic prescribing audit tool for dentists

2 February 2019

Risking Antimicrobial resistance (free E-book)

2 February 2019

Accelerating surveillance and research of antimicrobial resistance – an online repository for sharing of antimicrobial susceptibility data associated with whole genome sequences

30 January 2019

Greater Access to Information Reduces Unnecessary Antibiotic Prescriptions

29 January 2019

Study finds diarrheal pathogens, resistance genes in Bolivian river

29 January 2019

Pig farm study notes ties between resistome, antimicrobials, biosecurity

29 January 2019

Increase in vancomycin-resistant enterococci reported in Swiss hospitals

29 January 2019

CARB-X provides additional funds for phage lysin to treat Pseudomonas

29 January 2019

Whole Genome Sequencing for Personalized Antibiotic Therapy

29 January 2019

The invisible burden of antibiotic resistance in Mosul

29 January 2019

Rapid resistance gene sequencing technology can hasten identification of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

29 January 2019

Whole Genome Sequencing Method May Speed Personalized Treatment Of Drug-Resistant Infections

29 January 2019

HKBU scholars invent world-first multidimensional system for rapid antibiotic resistance testing and analysis

29 January 2019

CDC Tool: Latest Map of Investments to Combat Antibiotic Resistance

29 January 2019

Feedlotters monitor for antibiotic resistance

29 January 2019

Genentech Develop Antibiotic Effective Against Gram-Negative Bacteria, With Potential To Lead To New Class Of Antibiotics

29 January 2019

Antibiotics on farms: Europe starts to curb bad practices

29 January 2019

CDC Illustrates 12-months of Progress in Battle with Resistance Worldwide

29 January 2019

Resistance to antibiotics costing Malta €3m a year

29 January 2019

Whole Genome Sequencing Method May Speed Personalized Treatment of Drug-Resistant Infections

29 January 2019

Three political actions needed on antimicrobial resistance in 2019

29 January 2019

Antibiotic footprint: change the way food is labelled?

29 January 2019

Online data collections tool facilitates veterinary antimicrobial sales reporting

29 January 2019

Rationalizing antimicrobial therapy in the ICU: a narrative review



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