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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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9 February 2019

Trends in Oral Antibiotic Prescription in Dermatology, 2008 to 2016

9 February 2019

Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance through Improved Livestock Health and Welfare

9 February 2019

Government plans to control antimicrobial resistance launched: Guidance for dentists

9 February 2019

Antimicrobial resistance and the role of vaccines

9 February 2019

New guideline for cough (acute): antimicrobial prescribing

9 February 2019

Drug susceptibility testing and mortality in patients treated for tuberculosis in high-burden countries: a multicentre cohort study

8 February 2019

WHO methodology to measure antibiotic use in hospitals

7 February 2019

Can resistant infections be perceptible in UK dairy farming?

7 February 2019

Fight Against Superbugs Crucial to America’s Biodefense

7 February 2019

Letter urges Congressional action to stimulate antibiotic development

7 February 2019

FDA Accepts for Review NDA for Merck’s Investigational Combination of Imipenem/Cilastatin and Relebactam, and sNDA for ZERBAXA® (Ceftolozane and Tazobactam)

7 February 2019

CARB-X funds Recida Therapeutics to develop a new class of antibiotics to treat deadly infections caused by Gram negative superbugs

6 February 2019

Use of microbiology tests in the era of increasing AMR rates – a multicentre hospital cohort study

6 February 2019

EU: First regional workshop on antimicrobial resistance

5 February 2019

We can win the war on superbugs but only with the right investment

5 February 2019

Mobidiag Announces Completion of €10m Equity Investment from Autobio Diagnostics

5 February 2019

Microbes Hitched to Insects Provide a Rich Source of New Antibiotics

5 February 2019

Use of microbiology tests in the era of increasing AMR rates– a multicentre hospital cohort study

5 February 2019

Using the best available data to estimate the cost of antimicrobial resistance: a systematic review

5 February 2019

Researchers Develop New Approach for Vanquishing Superbugs

5 February 2019

Up to £1m funding awarded to develop bacterial vaccines in global fight against antimicrobial resistance

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

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