antibioticsresistance
Taxing broad-spectrum antibiotics that contribute most to drug resistance could reduce prescriptions in favour of other medicines, UK-based researchers say. The main contributor to antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which is when bacteria no longer respond to medicine, is overuse and misuse of antibiotics. Antibiotics are categorised as narrow-spectrum (i.e. targeting specific bacteria) or broad-spectrum (those used more broadly). While narrow-spectrum drugs can help slow AMR, they require knowledge of the bacteria causing an infection, whereas broad-spectrum antibiotics don’t. Researchers looked...
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Health authorities in Europe warned of an increase in drug resistance for gonorrhoea that could limit treatment options for the infection. Gonorrhoea is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by bacteria and often has no symptoms. If left untreated, it can cause serious problems such as pelvic inflammatory disease or infertility. In a new surveillance report for 2022, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) warned that two isolates of the STD were resistant to the common antibiotic ceftriaxone which is used to treat it. Nearly 4,400 gonorrhoea isolates from 23 Europe...
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Ramping up basic infection control measures could prevent 750,000 deaths linked to antibiotic resistance per year in developing countries, according to a new study. Antimicrobial resistance, when bacteria, viruses, or other microbes no longer respond to medicine, is a global public health threat, with researchers estimating that nearly 5 million deaths globally are associated with it. It is mainly driven by the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in humans, animals, and plants, experts say. In a new four-part series published on Thursday in the Lancet, researchers recommend new global targets to...
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