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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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1 September 2019

BIO campaign gathers pharma partners to lobby Congress against superbugs

1 September 2019

The rise in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in Germany: data from the German Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (ARS)

30 August 2019

The proposed Drug Resistance Index (DRI) is not a good measure of antibiotic effectiveness in relation to drug resistance

30 August 2019

Critical role of pharmacies in rapidly growing antimicrobial resistance

30 August 2019

Defining and combating antibiotic resistance from One Health and Global Health perspectives

30 August 2019

Ayushman India: battling superbugs will give the nation independence from a potential health epidemic

30 August 2019

Moving Away from Antibiotics in Animal Agriculture

30 August 2019

A Global Partnership to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance

30 August 2019

Outbreak of Salmonella Newport Infections with Decreased Susceptibility to Azithromycin Linked to Beef Obtained in the United States and Soft Cheese Obtained in Mexico — United States, 2018–2019

30 August 2019

New artificial cell can engulf live bacteria via endocytosis

30 August 2019

Food Systems Feeding the Next Superbug?

30 August 2019

Z/I1 Hybrid Virulence Plasmids Carrying Antimicrobial Resistance genes in S. Typhimurium from Australian Food Animal Production

30 August 2019

AMR-specific indicator proposed for monitoring Sustainable Development Goals

30 August 2019

Diagnostics: Species identification

28 August 2019

Trends in antimicrobial resistance of bacterial pathogens in Harare, Zimbabwe, 2012–2017: a secondary dataset analysis

28 August 2019

Use a condom: gonorrhoea on the rise in Australia

28 August 2019

Reducing Emissions from Antibiotics Production (REAP)

27 August 2019

Faecal microbiota transplantation for eradicating carriage of multidrug-resistant organisms: a systematic review

27 August 2019

Spraying Antibiotics to Fight Citrus Scourge Doesn’t Help, Study Finds

27 August 2019

Treatment for extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis wins US government approval

27 August 2019

Trends in resistant Enterobacteriaceae and Acinetobacter species in hospitalized patients in the United States: 2013–2017

27 August 2019

Antimicrobial resistance focus at Broiler Feed QC

27 August 2019

Fraunhofer and grit42 join forces in the global fight against antimicrobial resistance

25 July 2019

First three Escherichia coli isolates harboring mcr-1 in Uruguay

23 July 2019

Understanding Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Profiles of Salmonella Biofilm and Planktonic Bacteria Challenged with Disinfectants Commonly Used During Poultry Processing

23 July 2019

Use of Antibiotics Without a Prescription in the U.S. Population: A Scoping Review

23 July 2019

Resistant malaria spreading in South East Asia

22 July 2019

Resistance to critically important antimicrobials in Australian silver gulls (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae) and evidence of anthropogenic origins

22 July 2019

Novel antibiotics effective against gram-positive and -negative multi-resistant bacteria with limited resistance

22 July 2019

Potential Fifth Clade of Candida auris, Iran, 2018

22 July 2019

FDA approves new treatment for complicated urinary tract and complicated intra-abdominal infections

22 July 2019

Antibiotic resistance crisis deepens in Bangladesh

17 July 2019

Antimicrobial Resistance in Animals and the Environment

17 July 2019

Argentina, CARICOM, PAHO unite to tackle Antimicrobial Resistance

11 July 2019

Identification of four patients with colistin-resistant Escherichia coli containing the mobile colistin resistance mcr-1 gene from a single health system in Michigan

11 July 2019

Reducing antibiotic prescribing in primary care in England from 2014 to 2017: population-based cohort study

10 July 2019

Evaluating antimicrobial resistance in the global shrimp industry

10 July 2019

WHO updates global guidance on medicines and diagnostic tests to address health challenges, prioritize highly effective therapeutics, and improve affordable access

10 July 2019

Excess Antibiotic Treatment Duration and Adverse Events in Patients Hospitalized With Pneumonia: A Multihospital Cohort Study

10 July 2019

Co-ordinated approach urgently required to slow progression of antibiotic resistance

10 July 2019

Antimicrobial Resistance, Pitfall for Humanity or AI’s Next Triumph?

10 July 2019

Quantifying uncertainty about future antimicrobial resistance: Comparing structured expert judgment and statistical forecasting methods

10 July 2019

Development of new antibiotics encouraged with new pharmaceutical payment system

9 July 2019

Global burden of latent multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: trends and estimates based on mathematical modelling

8 July 2019

CRISPR-cas system: biological function in microbes and its use to treat antimicrobial resistant pathogens

8 July 2019

ZonMW, JPIAMR & VALUE-Dx survey to set up overview resources and services

8 July 2019

Personal clinical history predicts antibiotic resistance of urinary tract infections

8 July 2019

Empowering students to become powerful change agents against antimicrobial resistance in Nigeria

8 July 2019

Antimicrobial prescribing and determinants of antimicrobial resistance: a qualitative study among physicians in Pakistan

8 July 2019

Global epidemiology of emerging Candida auris

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