News

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.

  • Category

  • Reset
29 January 2019

Pig farm study notes ties between resistome, antimicrobials, biosecurity

29 January 2019

Increase in vancomycin-resistant enterococci reported in Swiss hospitals

29 January 2019

CARB-X provides additional funds for phage lysin to treat Pseudomonas

29 January 2019

Whole Genome Sequencing for Personalized Antibiotic Therapy

29 January 2019

The invisible burden of antibiotic resistance in Mosul

29 January 2019

Rapid resistance gene sequencing technology can hasten identification of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

29 January 2019

Whole Genome Sequencing Method May Speed Personalized Treatment Of Drug-Resistant Infections

29 January 2019

HKBU scholars invent world-first multidimensional system for rapid antibiotic resistance testing and analysis

29 January 2019

CDC Tool: Latest Map of Investments to Combat Antibiotic Resistance

29 January 2019

Feedlotters monitor for antibiotic resistance

29 January 2019

Genentech Develop Antibiotic Effective Against Gram-Negative Bacteria, With Potential To Lead To New Class Of Antibiotics

29 January 2019

Antibiotics on farms: Europe starts to curb bad practices

29 January 2019

CDC Illustrates 12-months of Progress in Battle with Resistance Worldwide

29 January 2019

Resistance to antibiotics costing Malta €3m a year

29 January 2019

Whole Genome Sequencing Method May Speed Personalized Treatment of Drug-Resistant Infections

29 January 2019

Three political actions needed on antimicrobial resistance in 2019

29 January 2019

Antibiotic footprint: change the way food is labelled?

29 January 2019

Online data collections tool facilitates veterinary antimicrobial sales reporting

29 January 2019

Rationalizing antimicrobial therapy in the ICU: a narrative review

29 January 2019

Emerging methodologies for pathogen identification in bloodstream infections: an update

29 January 2019

Experts on watch for resistance to new flu drug

29 January 2019

CDC warns of raw milk exposure to drug-resistant Brucella after 3rdcase

29 January 2019

Establishment of an International Reference Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance

29 January 2019

Tackling antimicrobial resistance 2019–2024

29 January 2019

UK antibiotic resistance five-year national action plan looks to salmon farming as model of success

29 January 2019

New Combined Diagnostic and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test Enables Resistance-Guided Therapy for Gonorrhoea

29 January 2019

UK livestock industry welcomes new AMR action plan

29 January 2019

Expert reaction to government plan for containing and controlling AMR

29 January 2019

BMA warns Brexit could hamper antimicrobial action plan

29 January 2019

Antibiotic Resistance: The Next Challenges Facing Research

29 January 2019

Functional screening for triclosan resistance in a wastewater metagenome and isolates of Escherichia coli and Enterococcus spp. from a large Canadian healthcare region.

29 January 2019

New AMR strategy revamps drug payment model UK

29 January 2019

Superbug genes from India found in Arctic

29 January 2019

Antibiotic resistance plan to fight ‘urgent’ global threat UK

21 January 2019

Sean Duke: Animal superbugs a growing threat to human health

21 January 2019

Lancet: Analysis of the clinical antibacterial and antituberculosis pipeline

21 January 2019

Two cases of resistant gonorrhoea diagnosed in the UK

21 January 2019

ReAct: Meet winning teams Innovate4AMR

21 January 2019

Danielle Ingle: Public health threat posed by resistant Shigella, both in Australia and globally.

21 January 2019

Peter Jackson: REVAMP-ing antibiotic funding?

21 January 2019

Saskia Popescu: Antimicrobial consumption and resistance a vicious cycle

21 January 2019

Karen Feldscher: Widespread occasional use antibiotics to cause more resistance than repeated use among smaller numbers of people

20 January 2019

Gail Hayward: Attitudes by GPs regarding antibiotic prescribing in older adults

20 January 2019

Jason Burnham: Estimation mortality from MDROs in the United States

20 January 2019

Chris Dall: MDR S. koreensis infections linked to hospital’s plumbing system

20 January 2019

Chris Dall: Outbreak XDR typhoid Pakistan affected more than 5,200 people

20 January 2019

Julie Hauserman: Expanded use streptomycin and oxytetracycline as pesticide on commercially grown citrus

20 January 2019

High prevalence colistin-resistant E. coli rural communities Vietnam

20 January 2019

New antibiotic Ramazol for treatment of Clostridium difficile

19 January 2019

Uday Dessai: Whole genome sequencing (WGS) to predict AMR in food-borne bacteria

What is going on with AMR?
Stay tuned with remarkable global AMR news and developments!

Keep me informed