Response to ‘Antibiotic Use and Resistance’

Controlling antibiotic use and resistance.

Rationalizing antibiotic use to limit antibiotic resistance in India+

Antibiotic resistance, a global concern, is particularly pressing in developing nations, including India, where the burden of infectious disease is high and healthcare spending is low. The Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership (GARP) was established to develop actionable policy recommendations specifically relevant to low- and middle-income countries where suboptimal access to antibiotics - ...

European Strategies to Control Antibiotic Resistance and Use

Europe has taken many political actions since 1999 to better control antimicrobial resistance and use, including two European Council Recommendations and actions taken by numerous European Union (EU) presidencies. These presidencies triggered many public health and research actions in the EU. Europe developed several very successful surveillance programmes on antimicrobial resistance and antimi...

The use of platensimycin and platencin to fight antibiotic resistance

Infectious diseases are known as one of the most life-threatening disabilities worldwide. Approximately 13 million deaths related to infectious diseases are reported each year. The only way to combat infectious diseases is by chemotherapy using antimicrobial agents and antibiotics. However, due to uncontrolled and unnecessary use of antibiotics in particular, surviving bacteria have evolved res...

Resist antibiotic use before resistance spreads

Objective Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the common complaints with which patients present to the emergency department. There are very few studies from our part of the country for UTI. The most commonly used antibiotics are fluoroquinolones, nitrofurantoin and aminoglycosides. The objective of this study was to evaluate the characteristics of bacteria involved in UTI and the prevalent ...