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If you want to be fully updated on antimicrobial resistance, here is the most up-to-date and comprehensive overview of news items. The carefully selected 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.

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18 May 2024

Time is running out. No excuses to delay implementation of antimicrobial stewardship programmes: impact, sustainability, resilience and efficiency through an interrupted time series analysis (2017–2022) 

18 May 2024

New Antibiotic Prescribing Measure Key to Curbing Inappropriate Use

18 May 2024

Global antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic use in COVID-19 patients within health facilities: a systematic review and meta-analysis of aggregated participant data

18 May 2024

Clinical Course, Antifungal Susceptibility, and Genomic Sequencing of Trichophyton indotineae

18 May 2024

WHO updates list of drug-resistant bacteria most threatening to human health

18 May 2024

Statement at UN multistakeholder hearing on antimicrobial resistance

16 May 2024

Emerging trends in antimicrobial resistance in bloodstream infections: multicentric longitudinal study in India

16 May 2024

ICARS’ Recommendations to the UN General Assembly’s High-level Meeting on AMR

16 May 2024

The socioeconomic drivers and impacts of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR): Implications for policy and research

15 May 2024

Prevalence and Determinants of the Use of Antibiotics by Self-Medication in the Pediatric Population in Oujda, Morocco

15 May 2024

Implementing the global action plan on antimicrobial resistance: first quadripartite biennial report

14 May 2024

Trends of antibiotic use at the end-of-life of cancer and non-cancer decedents: a nationwide population-based longitudinal study (2006–2018)

14 May 2024

Antimicrobial resistance among common bacterial pathogens in Indonesia: a systematic review

13 May 2024

Monitoring of antimicrobial resistance in respiratory tract pathogens during the COVID-19 pandemic: A retrospective study

13 May 2024

Publication: Stopping the Grand Pandemic: A Framework for Action – Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance through World Bank Operations

11 May 2024

Prevalence of polymyxin-resistant bacterial strains in India: a systematic review and meta-analysis

11 May 2024

Functional dependence as a contributing factor for patient hand contamination by multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs) in acute care

9 May 2024

#GlobalAMRDiary: Collective storytelling to shift perspectives and shape policy

9 May 2024

Confronting antimicrobial resistance 2024 to 2029

7 May 2024

AMR Industry Alliance Releases New Report Inspiring Action: The Impact of and Recommendations on Including Diagnostics in National Action Plans

4 May 2024

The facilitators of and barriers to antimicrobial use and misuse in Lalitpur, Nepal: a qualitative study

4 May 2024

Could the effect of antimicrobials on antimicrobial resistance be saturated at high antimicrobial consumption? A comparison of the MORDOR and ResistAZM studies

4 May 2024

Strengthening the EU response to prevention and control of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR): Policy priorities for effective implementation

3 May 2024

Call for actionable steps in response tothe rising threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

3 May 2024

What Is Ethically Important About Antimicrobial Resistance?

1 May 2024

Antimicrobial resistance prevalence in bloodstream infection in 29 European countries by age and sex: An observational study

1 May 2024

A National Quality Improvement Collaborative to Improve Antibiotic Use in Pediatric Infections

30 April 2024

Introduction of antimicrobial resistance education in pharmacy curricula in India: Lessons learned and future direction

28 April 2024

Antibiotic use and resistance patterns at Rumphi District Hospital in Malawi: a cross-sectional study

28 April 2024

Antimicrobial-resistant hospital infections remain at least 12% above pre-pandemic levels, major US study finds

28 April 2024

WHO reports widespread overuse of antibiotics in patients hospitalized with COVID-19

25 April 2024

Global Burden of Fungal Infections and Antifungal Resistance from 1961 to 2024: Findings and Future Implications

25 April 2024

Biodiversity of carbapenem-resistant bacteria in clinical samples from the Southwest Amazon region (Rondônia/Brazil)

25 April 2024

Developing an ethical evaluation framework for coercive antimicrobial stewardship policies

25 April 2024

Antimicrobial Resistance, One Health Interventions and the Least Restrictive Alternative Principle

25 April 2024

Tackling the threat of antimicrobial resistance in neonates and children: outcomes from the first WHO-convened Paediatric Drug Optimisation exercise for antibiotics

23 April 2024

Black women hospitalised in USA with blood infection resistant to last-resort antibiotic at increased risk of death

22 April 2024

Factors associated with the use of antibiotics for children presenting with illnesses with fever and cough obtained from prescription and non-prescription sources: a cross-sectional study of data for 37 sub-Saharan African countries

22 April 2024

Global Movement Urges UN to put Communities and Civil Society at the heart of AMR response

20 April 2024

Drivers of antimicrobial resistance within the communities of Nepal from One Health perspective: a scoping review

20 April 2024

Predicting the distribution patterns of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms in the context of Jordanian cases using machine learning techniques

20 April 2024

New report outlines cost of inaction on AMR ahead of UN high-level meeting

19 April 2024

Antimicrobial resistance in bacterial wound, skin, soft tissue and surgical site infections in Central, Eastern, Southern and Western Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis

18 April 2024

Experts Urge Unified Data Systems For AMR Surveillance In India

18 April 2024

Trends, patterns and relationship of antimicrobial use and resistance in bacterial isolates tested between 2015–2020 in a national referral hospital of Zambia

18 April 2024

Antimicrobial Resistance: Stewardship and One Health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

18 April 2024

Action against antimicrobial resistance requires a One Health approach

17 April 2024

The clinical profile and outcomes of drug resistant tuberculosis in Central Province of Zambia

17 April 2024

Introduction of antimicrobial resistance education in pharmacy curricula in India: lessons learned and future direction

17 April 2024

Emerging Challenges in Antimicrobial Resistance: Implications for Pathogenic Microorganisms, Novel Antibiotics, and their Impact on Sustainability

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