Routine use of antibiotics to control disease among Irish livestock must be reduced.
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Lancet: Analysis of the clinical antibacterial and antituberculosis pipeline
Clinical pipeline dominated by derivatives of established classes and most development candidates display limited innovation.
Two cases of resistant gonorrhoea diagnosed in the UK
Public Health England reminding people of the importance of practising safer sex and seeking help if they are worried they may have an STI.
ReAct: Meet winning teams Innovate4AMR
Innovate4AMR competition bringing together students from around the world to develop innovative projects to improve antibiotic stewardship in low-resource settings.
Danielle Ingle: Public health threat posed by resistant Shigella, both in Australia and globally.
Urgent multidisciplinary public health measures are required to interrupt transmission and prevent infection.
Peter Jackson: REVAMP-ing antibiotic funding?
Republican John Shimkus and Democrat Tony Cardenas seeking to get the Re-Valuing Antimicrobial Products (REVAMP) Act before the US House of Representatives.
Saskia Popescu: Antimicrobial consumption and resistance a vicious cycle
Saskia Popescu to describe increasing resistance reciprocally affects consumption of antibiotics on basis of recent study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Karen Feldscher: Widespread occasional use antibiotics to cause more resistance than repeated use among smaller numbers of people
First study to take a population-wide look at the link between distribution of antibiotic use and resistance to those antibiotics.
Gail Hayward: Attitudes by GPs regarding antibiotic prescribing in older adults
Diagnosing serious infections in older adults reflect absence of clear guidance. Research required to support GPs with their critical antimicrobial stewardship role in elderly.
Jason Burnham: Estimation mortality from MDROs in the United States
Estimates illustrate a need for better surveillance and reporting mechanisms for MDRO infections.
Chris Dall: MDR S. koreensis infections linked to hospital’s plumbing system
Investigation triggered when six patients at NIH Clinical Center developed infections with Sphingomonas species, which are ubiquitous in natural and man-made water sources.
Chris Dall: Outbreak XDR typhoid Pakistan affected more than 5,200 people
Majority of cases (69%) reported in Karachi, capital city of Sindh province, and 27% in Hyderabad district.