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22 October 2018

Emerging Antimicrobial Resistance Reporting (GLASS-EAR) webpage is now live

22 October 2018

One of the world’s largest banks has issued an alarming warning about antibiotic resistance — with big consequences for humanity

22 October 2018

Probiotics and antibiotics create a killer combination

22 October 2018

Kerala, India: New plan to counter antimicrobial resistance

22 October 2018

Case Western Reserve Researchers Cure Drug-Resistant Infections without Antibiotics

22 October 2018

New Test Rapidly Identifies Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs

22 October 2018

Study finds current diagnostic tests missing MDR-TB cases in South Africa

21 October 2018

Drug-resistant salmonella outbreak impacts Tennessee

21 October 2018

Breastfeeding protects infants from antibiotic-resistant bacteria

21 October 2018

How drug resistant TB evolved and spread globally

21 October 2018

Antimicrobial resistance of major clinical pathogens in South Korea, May 2016 to April 2017: first one-year report from Kor-GLASS

21 October 2018

Developmental roadmap for antimicrobial susceptibility testing systems

21 October 2018

WhatsApp alert improves real-time antimicrobial stewardship program

21 October 2018

Epidemiology of antibiotic resistance of blood culture in educational hospitals in Rasht, North of Iran

21 October 2018

Organizations Across the World Commit to Fight Antimicrobial Resistance

21 October 2018

BD launches molecular test for detecting tuberculosis and multi-drug resistant TB

20 October 2018

Report urges burger chains to hold the antibiotics

20 October 2018

Antibiotic resistance in Palestine: an emerging part of a larger crisis

20 October 2018

£32 million competition launched for AMR research

20 October 2018

Market study finds new antibiotics often not widely distributed globally

20 October 2018

Patent filings for AMR point-of-care tests are declining, with funds lacking

20 October 2018

Two tests do well in detecting colistin-resistant Enterobacteriaceae

20 October 2018

Report highlights declining sales of vet antibiotics in Europe

20 October 2018

Multiple introductions and subsequent transmission of multidrug-resistant Candida auris in the USA: a molecular epidemiological survey

20 October 2018

Profiling antimicrobial peptides from the medical maggot Lucilia sericata as potential antibiotics for MDR Gram-negative bacteria

20 October 2018

Approach Paves Way For New Antimicrobial Materials

20 October 2018

USAID research: Agriculture runoffs creating drug-resistant bacteria in freshwater

20 October 2018

Purdue researchers hope deadly MRSA superbugs take the bait

14 October 2018

Epidemiology of common resistant bacterial pathogens in the countries of the Arab League

14 October 2018

Vaccines to tackle drug resistant infections

14 October 2018

Antibiotic Stewardship in Animal Agriculture Requires Defined Durations of Use

13 October 2018

Reducing UK Antibiotic Use in Animals

13 October 2018

Pakistan’s national action plan for antimicrobial resistance: translating ideas into reality

13 October 2018

Nursing home study illustrates risk of resistant bacteria transmission

13 October 2018

De-colonization of therapy dogs lessens risk of MRSA spread, study finds

13 October 2018

Efficacy and tolerability of a cocktail of bacteriophages to treat burn wounds infected by Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PhagoBurn): a randomised, controlled, double-blind phase 1/2 trial

13 October 2018

Smartphone-based pathogen diagnosis in urinary sepsis patients

13 October 2018

Paratek Announces FDA Approval of NUZYRA™ (Omadacycline)

13 October 2018

Low antibiotic concentration in the environment enough to increase antimicrobial resistance in laboratory conditions

13 October 2018

Understanding Antibiotic Resistance in Patients With Cystic Fibrosis

13 October 2018

FDA approves a new antibacterial drug to treat a serious lung disease using a novel pathway to spur innovation

13 October 2018

Novel linezolid resistance plasmids in Enterococcus from food animals in the USA

13 October 2018

Study heralds genetic era of TB drug susceptibility testing

13 October 2018

Use of NRSA Data for Mapping Antibiotic-Resistance Gene Distributions in Conterminous US Rivers and Streams

29 September 2018

Understanding antibiotic resistance in patients with cystic fibrosis

29 September 2018

A survey on antimicrobial stewardship prerequisites, objectives and improvement strategies: systematic development and nationwide assessment in Dutch acute care hospitals

29 September 2018

The Norwegian Institute of Public Health and the Norwegian Veterinary Institute released the 2017 NORM and NORM-VET report on AMR

29 September 2018

South Africa superbug kills six newborns

29 September 2018

Crucial antibiotics still used on US farms despite public health fears

29 September 2018

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